Springdale, PA 15144 Frost Dates
Springdale, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
Springdale 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Springdale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Springdale's last frost
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.
Springdale against the rest of the dataset
Springdale's growing season runs about 199 days, ranking 18,121 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 299 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15144's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Springdale's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Springdale can differ from the 15144 normal.