Kutztown, PA 19538 Frost Dates
19538, near Kutztown, PA: the frost window
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Kutztown sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Kutztown'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.
Kutztown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 202 frost-free days, Kutztown places 17,234 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 216 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19538: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kutztown's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kutztown can differ from the 19538 normal.