Silverdale, PA 18962 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Silverdale, PA, ZIP 18962
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 175 frost-free days later.
Silverdale 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Silverdale has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Silverdale's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Silverdale compares
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Silverdale places 27,117 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,230 of 2,088.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Silverdale's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Silverdale's dates instead of trusting one.