West Reading, PA 19611 Frost Dates
19611, near West Reading, PA: the frost window
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 West Reading, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
West Reading'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.
The actual range around West Reading's last frost
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.
West Reading against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 197 frost-free days, West Reading places 18,669 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 360 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19611: the frost range, on how to read the range around West Reading's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in West Reading can differ from the 19611 normal.