Parkesburg, PA 19365 Frost Dates
19365, near Parkesburg, PA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Parkesburg 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
Parkesburg's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/19 isn't a guarantee
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Parkesburg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 189 frost-free days, Parkesburg places 21,570 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 562 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19365: the frost range, on how to read the range around Parkesburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Parkesburg can differ from the 19365 normal.