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Canonsburg, PA 15339 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Canonsburg, PA?

Zone 6b

Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 193 frost-free days later.

Canonsburg 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.

What to do before the first frost

About 9 weeks of growing season left in Canonsburg before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Canonsburg's last frost

04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Canonsburg compares

At roughly 193 frost-free days, Canonsburg places 19,780 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 418 of 2,088.

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