Media, PA 19028 Frost Dates
19028, near Media, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
Media 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
Media's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Media's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Media against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 224 frost-free days, Media places 11,841 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 25 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19028: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Media's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Media's dates instead of trusting one.