Rutledge, PA 19033 Frost Dates
19033, near Rutledge, PA: the frost window
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.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Rutledge, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Rutledge'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Rutledge against the rest of the dataset
Rutledge's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,936 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 46 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19033: local microclimates, on what one yard in Rutledge can differ from the 19033 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Rutledge's frost date answer different questions.