Leesport, PA 19548 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Leesport, PA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/14, roughly 229 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/29, about 197 frost-free days later.
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 Leesport, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Leesport before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Leesport's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Leesport compares
About 197 days separate Leesport's last and first frost, putting it 18,701 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 370 of 2,088.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Leesport can differ from the 19548 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7a and Leesport's frost date answer different questions.