Perryopolis, PA 15473 Frost Dates
Perryopolis, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Perryopolis 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 Perryopolis'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.
Perryopolis against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Perryopolis places 31,011 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,586 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15473's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Perryopolis's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Perryopolis can differ from the 15473 normal.