Uniontown, PA 15472 Frost Dates
15472, near Uniontown, PA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Uniontown 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
Uniontown's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Uniontown against the rest of the dataset
Uniontown's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 26,817 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,119 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15472: the frost range, on how to read the range around Uniontown's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Uniontown can differ from the 15472 normal.