Sharpsburg, PA 15215 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Sharpsburg, PA, ZIP 15215
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. 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 19,931 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 477 of 2,088.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Sharpsburg can differ from the 15215 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Sharpsburg's frost date answer different questions.