Green Tree, PA 15282 Frost Dates
15282, near Green Tree, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Green Tree 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Green Tree's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Green Tree places 19,879 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 462 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15282: local microclimates, on what one yard in Green Tree can differ from the 15282 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Green Tree's frost date answer different questions.