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Zelienople, PA 16063 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Zelienople, PA?

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/18, about 172 frost-free days later.

Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Zelienople, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

About 7 weeks of growing season left in Zelienople before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Zelienople's last frost

04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Zelienople compares

At roughly 172 frost-free days, Zelienople places 28,288 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,358 of 2,088.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Zelienople's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Zelienople's dates instead of trusting one.