Churchill, PA 15235 Frost Dates
Churchill, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 247 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 170 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 Churchill, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Churchill's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Churchill's last frost
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Churchill against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Churchill places 29,024 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,478 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15235's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Churchill can differ from the 15235 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Churchill's frost date answer different questions.