Centerville, PA 15427 Frost Dates
Centerville, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. 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 Centerville 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Centerville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Centerville's last frost
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.
Centerville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Centerville places 30,948 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,575 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15427's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Centerville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Centerville's dates instead of trusting one.