Central City, PA 15926 Frost Dates
15926, near Central City, PA: the frost window
Around 05/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 249 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Central City 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
Central City's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Central City's last frost
05/04 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 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Central City against the rest of the dataset
About 158 days separate Central City's last and first frost, putting it 33,071 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,751 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 15926: local microclimates, on what one yard in Central City can differ from the 15926 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Central City's frost date answer different questions.