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Womelsdorf, PA 19567 Frost Dates

Womelsdorf, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.

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 Womelsdorf, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 9 weeks until Womelsdorf'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

04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Womelsdorf against the rest of the dataset

About 197 days separate Womelsdorf's last and first frost, putting it 18,685 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 367 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 19567's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Womelsdorf's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Womelsdorf's dates instead of trusting one.