Sykesville, PA 15865 Frost Dates
Sykesville, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/06, roughly 251 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sykesville 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Sykesville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sykesville's last frost
05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sykesville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Sykesville places 32,430 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,709 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15865's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Sykesville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Sykesville can differ from the 15865 normal.