Bridgeville, PA 15017 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Bridgeville, PA, ZIP 15017
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 193 frost-free days later.
Bridgeville 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Bridgeville has about 9 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
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bridgeville compares
About 193 days separate Bridgeville's last and first frost, putting it 19,884 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 466 of 2,088.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Bridgeville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Bridgeville's dates instead of trusting one.