Fleetwood, PA 19522 Frost Dates
19522, near Fleetwood, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fleetwood 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
Fleetwood'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fleetwood against the rest of the dataset
Fleetwood's growing season runs about 202 days, ranking 17,236 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 218 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19522: the frost range, on how to read the range around Fleetwood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Fleetwood can differ from the 19522 normal.