FrostDateCheck

Ivyland, PA 18966 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Ivyland, PA?

Zone 7a

Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/07, about 216 frost-free days later.

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.

What to do before the first frost

About 10 weeks of growing season left in Ivyland before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Ivyland's last frost

04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/17 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Ivyland compares

At roughly 216 frost-free days, Ivyland places 13,861 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 78 of 2,088.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Ivyland's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Ivyland can differ from the 18966 normal.