Turtle Creek, PA 15145 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Turtle Creek, PA, ZIP 15145
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 170 frost-free days later.
Turtle Creek 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Turtle Creek 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.
The actual range around Turtle Creek's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Turtle Creek compares
About 170 days separate Turtle Creek's last and first frost, putting it 28,988 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,464 of 2,088.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Turtle Creek's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Turtle Creek's dates instead of trusting one.