Perkasie, PA 18944 Frost Dates
Perkasie, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Perkasie in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Perkasie's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Perkasie's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Perkasie against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Perkasie's last and first frost, putting it 26,822 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,124 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 18944's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Perkasie's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Perkasie can differ from the 18944 normal.