Brackenridge, PA 15065 Frost Dates
15065, 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 18,123 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 301 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15065: the frost range, on how to read the range around Brackenridge's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Brackenridge can differ from the 15065 normal.