Pleasantville, PA 15521 Frost Dates
15521, near Pleasantville, PA: the frost window
Around 05/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 249 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
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 Pleasantville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pleasantville's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/04 isn't a guarantee
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pleasantville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Pleasantville places 33,149 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,756 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15521: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Pleasantville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pleasantville's dates instead of trusting one.