Downingtown, PA 19376 Frost Dates
Downingtown, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 174 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Downingtown in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Downingtown'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
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Downingtown against the rest of the dataset
About 174 days separate Downingtown's last and first frost, putting it 27,417 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,292 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 19376's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Downingtown's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Downingtown's dates instead of trusting one.