Prospect Park, PA 19076 Frost Dates
19076, near Prospect Park, PA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Prospect Park in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Prospect Park'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.
Prospect Park against the rest of the dataset
About 224 days separate Prospect Park's last and first frost, putting it 11,829 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 19 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19076: local microclimates, on what one yard in Prospect Park can differ from the 19076 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Prospect Park's frost date answer different questions.