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Folcroft, PA 19032 Frost Dates

Folcroft, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 7b

Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.

Folcroft sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 11 weeks until Folcroft's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Folcroft'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.

Folcroft against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 224 frost-free days, Folcroft places 11,826 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 16 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 19032's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Folcroft's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Folcroft's dates instead of trusting one.