Ivyland, PA 18929 Frost Dates
Ivyland, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
Ivyland sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Ivyland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ivyland against the rest of the dataset
About 205 days separate Ivyland's last and first frost, putting it 16,365 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 176 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18929's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Ivyland's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Ivyland can differ from the 18929 normal.