Valley-Hi, PA 15533 Frost Dates
Valley-Hi, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Valley-Hi 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 Valley-Hi'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
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Valley-Hi against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Valley-Hi places 30,259 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,525 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15533's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Valley-Hi's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Valley-Hi's dates instead of trusting one.