Vanderbilt, PA 15486 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Vanderbilt, PA, ZIP 15486
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/13, about 164 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Vanderbilt, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Vanderbilt has about 7 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.
The actual range around Vanderbilt's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Vanderbilt compares
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Vanderbilt places 31,144 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,607 of 2,088.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Vanderbilt's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Vanderbilt's dates instead of trusting one.