Parkesburg, PA 19367 Frost Dates
Parkesburg, PA: when does the frost end?
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.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Parkesburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Parkesburg'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
04/19 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 21,571 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 563 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 19367's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Parkesburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Parkesburg can differ from the 19367 normal.