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Beaver, PA 15009 Frost Dates

Beaver, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.

Beaver sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 7 weeks until Beaver's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Beaver's last frost

04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Beaver against the rest of the dataset

About 172 days separate Beaver's last and first frost, putting it 28,285 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,355 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 15009's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Beaver's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Beaver's dates instead of trusting one.