Homer City, PA 15754 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Homer City, 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.
Homer City sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Homer City before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Homer City'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 Homer City compares
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Homer City places 28,693 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,433 of 2,088.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Homer City's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Homer City's dates instead of trusting one.