Seven Fields, PA 16066 Frost Dates
Seven Fields, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Seven Fields in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Seven Fields's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Seven Fields's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Seven Fields against the rest of the dataset
Seven Fields's growing season runs about 172 days, ranking 28,303 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,361 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16066's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Seven Fields's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Seven Fields can differ from the 16066 normal.