Fairview, PA 16048 Frost Dates
16048, near Fairview, PA: the frost window
Around 05/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 260 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 140 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Fairview, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fairview's growing season runs out in roughly 5 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 Fairview's last frost
05/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fairview against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 140 frost-free days, Fairview places 37,176 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 2,038 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 16048: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Fairview's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fairview's dates instead of trusting one.