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Sharpsburg, PA 15206 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Sharpsburg, PA, ZIP 15206

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 193 frost-free days later.

Sharpsburg 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 Sharpsburg has about 9 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

04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Sharpsburg compares

At roughly 193 frost-free days, Sharpsburg places 19,930 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 476 of 2,088.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Sharpsburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Sharpsburg can differ from the 15206 normal.