Saltsburg, PA 15681 Frost Dates
15681, near Saltsburg, 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 10/20, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Saltsburg in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Saltsburg's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Saltsburg's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Saltsburg against the rest of the dataset
About 171 days separate Saltsburg's last and first frost, putting it 28,752 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,440 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15681: the frost range, on how to read the range around Saltsburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Saltsburg can differ from the 15681 normal.