Ebensburg, PA 15931 Frost Dates
Ebensburg, PA: when does the frost end?
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 Ebensburg 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 8 weeks until Ebensburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ebensburg'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.
Ebensburg against the rest of the dataset
Ebensburg's growing season runs about 176 days, ranking 26,461 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,039 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 15931's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ebensburg can differ from the 15931 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Ebensburg's frost date answer different questions.