Northern Cambria, PA 15761 Frost Dates
15761, near Northern Cambria, PA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Northern Cambria 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
Northern Cambria's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Northern Cambria against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 176 frost-free days, Northern Cambria places 26,455 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,033 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15761: the frost range, on how to read the range around Northern Cambria's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Northern Cambria can differ from the 15761 normal.