Brownsville, PA 15444 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Brownsville, PA, ZIP 15444
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 175 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Brownsville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Brownsville has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Brownsville compares
About 175 days separate Brownsville's last and first frost, putting it 26,980 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,179 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Brownsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Brownsville can differ from the 15444 normal.