Media, PA 19091 Frost Dates
19091, near Media, 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 Media 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
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
About 224 days separate Media's last and first frost, putting it 11,845 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 29 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19091: the frost range, on how to read the range around Media's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Media can differ from the 19091 normal.