Claysville, PA 15365 Frost Dates
15365, near Claysville, PA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. 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
Claysville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/23 isn't a guarantee
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
About 185 days separate Claysville's last and first frost, putting it 23,261 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 724 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15365: local microclimates, on what one yard in Claysville can differ from the 15365 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Claysville's frost date answer different questions.