Blairsville, PA 15779 Frost Dates
Blairsville, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Blairsville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 8 weeks until Blairsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Blairsville's last frost
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.
Blairsville against the rest of the dataset
Blairsville's growing season runs about 171 days, ranking 28,651 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,425 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15779's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Blairsville can differ from the 15779 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Blairsville's frost date answer different questions.