New Paris, PA 15554 Frost Dates
15554, near New Paris, PA: the frost window
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.
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 New Paris, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
New Paris's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
04/29 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.
New Paris against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate New Paris's last and first frost, putting it 30,210 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,521 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15554: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and New Paris's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around New Paris's dates instead of trusting one.