Beallsville, PA 15313 Frost Dates
15313, near Beallsville, PA: the frost window
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Beallsville 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
Beallsville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Beallsville against the rest of the dataset
About 164 days separate Beallsville's last and first frost, putting it 31,151 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,613 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15313: local microclimates, on what one yard in Beallsville can differ from the 15313 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Beallsville's frost date answer different questions.