Seven Springs, PA 15446 Frost Dates
Seven Springs, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Seven Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Seven Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Seven Springs's last frost
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.
Seven Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 164 days separate Seven Springs's last and first frost, putting it 31,270 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,643 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15446's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Seven Springs can differ from the 15446 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Seven Springs's frost date answer different questions.