Plumville, PA 15747 Frost Dates
15747, near Plumville, PA: the frost window
Around 05/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 255 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 155 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Plumville in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Plumville's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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 Plumville's last frost
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Plumville against the rest of the dataset
Plumville's growing season runs about 155 days, ranking 34,141 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,840 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15747: local microclimates, on what one yard in Plumville can differ from the 15747 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Plumville's frost date answer different questions.