Folcroft, PA 19113 Frost Dates
19113, near Folcroft, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. 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 Folcroft 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
Folcroft'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.
Why 04/02 isn't a guarantee
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
About 224 days separate Folcroft's last and first frost, putting it 11,827 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 17 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19113: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Folcroft's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Folcroft's dates instead of trusting one.