Vanderbilt, PA 15430 Frost Dates
Vanderbilt, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Vanderbilt 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 7 weeks until Vanderbilt'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
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Vanderbilt against the rest of the dataset
Vanderbilt's growing season runs about 164 days, ranking 31,143 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,606 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15430's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Vanderbilt's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Vanderbilt can differ from the 15430 normal.