Frankfort Springs, PA 15026 Frost Dates
15026, near Frankfort Springs, PA: the frost window
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.
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 Frankfort Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Frankfort Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
04/28 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.
Frankfort Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Frankfort Springs places 28,540 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,416 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15026: the frost range, on how to read the range around Frankfort Springs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Frankfort Springs can differ from the 15026 normal.