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Baden, PA 15005 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Baden, PA, ZIP 15005

Zone 6b

Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/18, about 172 frost-free days later.

Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Baden, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6b around Baden has about 7 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.

How much risk comes with planting early here

04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Baden compares

About 172 days separate Baden's last and first frost, putting it 28,287 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,357 of 2,088.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Baden's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Baden's dates instead of trusting one.