Fleetwood, PA 19612 Frost Dates
Fleetwood, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 202 days after the last spring frost.
Fleetwood sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Fleetwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/10 isn't a guarantee
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.
Fleetwood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 202 frost-free days, Fleetwood places 17,238 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 220 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 19612's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Fleetwood's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Fleetwood's dates instead of trusting one.