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Youngwood, PA 15689 Frost Dates

Youngwood, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Youngwood 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

With roughly 7 weeks until Youngwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Youngwood's last frost

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.

Youngwood against the rest of the dataset

Youngwood's growing season runs about 164 days, ranking 30,957 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,578 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 15689's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Youngwood's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Youngwood can differ from the 15689 normal.