Fleetwood, PA 19547 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Fleetwood, PA, ZIP 19547
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 202 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Fleetwood has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Fleetwood's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/29 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fleetwood compares
About 202 days separate Fleetwood's last and first frost, putting it 17,237 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 219 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Fleetwood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Fleetwood can differ from the 19547 normal.