Ohiopyle, PA 15421 Frost Dates
Ohiopyle, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Ohiopyle sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Ohiopyle's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ohiopyle's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ohiopyle against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Ohiopyle places 27,301 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,277 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15421's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Ohiopyle's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Ohiopyle can differ from the 15421 normal.