Claysville, PA 15323 Frost Dates
Claysville, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Claysville 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Claysville'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
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Claysville against the rest of the dataset
Claysville's growing season runs about 185 days, ranking 23,260 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 723 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15323's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Claysville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Claysville can differ from the 15323 normal.