Elverson, PA 19343 Frost Dates
19343, near Elverson, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
Elverson sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Elverson's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Elverson's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elverson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Elverson places 16,346 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 172 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19343: local microclimates, on what one yard in Elverson can differ from the 19343 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Elverson's frost date answer different questions.