Northern Cambria, PA 15760 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Northern Cambria, PA, ZIP 15760
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 176 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Northern Cambria, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Northern Cambria has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 Northern Cambria compares
About 176 days separate Northern Cambria's last and first frost, putting it 26,454 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,032 of 2,088.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Northern Cambria can differ from the 15760 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Northern Cambria's frost date answer different questions.