Sutersville, PA 15018 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Sutersville, PA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 170 frost-free days later.
Sutersville 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
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Sutersville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Sutersville's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sutersville compares
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Sutersville places 29,175 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,499 of 2,088.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Sutersville's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Sutersville's dates instead of trusting one.