Brackenridge, PA 15014 Frost Dates
15014, near Brackenridge, PA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
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 Brackenridge, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Brackenridge'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brackenridge against the rest of the dataset
About 199 days separate Brackenridge's last and first frost, putting it 18,122 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 300 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15014: local microclimates, on what one yard in Brackenridge can differ from the 15014 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Brackenridge's frost date answer different questions.