Honey Brook, PA 19344 Frost Dates
Honey Brook, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Honey Brook 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Honey Brook's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Honey Brook against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Honey Brook places 19,958 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 485 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 19344's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Honey Brook can differ from the 19344 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Honey Brook's frost date answer different questions.