Seven Springs, PA 15622 Frost Dates
Seven Springs, 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.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Seven Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Seven Springs'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.
Seven Springs against the rest of the dataset
Seven Springs's growing season runs about 164 days, ranking 31,273 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,646 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15622's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Seven Springs's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Seven Springs can differ from the 15622 normal.