Wyalusing, PA 18853 Frost Dates
18853, near Wyalusing, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
Wyalusing sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wyalusing's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wyalusing against the rest of the dataset
About 165 days separate Wyalusing's last and first frost, putting it 30,687 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,545 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 18853: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Wyalusing's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Wyalusing's dates instead of trusting one.