Burgettstown, PA 15078 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Burgettstown, PA, ZIP 15078
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 175 frost-free days later.
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 Burgettstown, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Burgettstown has about 8 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
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Burgettstown compares
About 175 days separate Burgettstown's last and first frost, putting it 27,049 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,203 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Burgettstown's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Burgettstown can differ from the 15078 normal.