McDonald, PA 15082 Frost Dates
15082, near McDonald, PA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 181 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 McDonald, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
McDonald's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around McDonald's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
McDonald against the rest of the dataset
About 181 days separate McDonald's last and first frost, putting it 24,569 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 829 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15082: the frost range, on how to read the range around McDonald's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in McDonald can differ from the 15082 normal.