Vandergrift, PA 15690 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Vandergrift, PA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 171 frost-free days later.
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 Vandergrift, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Vandergrift before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Vandergrift's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/17 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Vandergrift compares
About 171 days separate Vandergrift's last and first frost, putting it 28,635 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,422 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Vandergrift's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Vandergrift can differ from the 15690 normal.