Green Tree, PA 15240 Frost Dates
Green Tree, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Green Tree in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Green Tree's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Green Tree against the rest of the dataset
About 193 days separate Green Tree's last and first frost, putting it 19,853 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 436 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15240's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Green Tree's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Green Tree's dates instead of trusting one.