East Lansdowne, PA 19050 Frost Dates
East Lansdowne, PA: when does the frost end?
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.
East Lansdowne 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 East Lansdowne's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around East Lansdowne'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.
East Lansdowne against the rest of the dataset
East Lansdowne's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,888 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 36 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 19050's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in East Lansdowne can differ from the 19050 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and East Lansdowne's frost date answer different questions.