Conneaut Lake, PA 16131 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Conneaut Lake, PA, ZIP 16131
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/23, about 177 frost-free days later.
Conneaut Lake sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Conneaut Lake has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/17 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Conneaut Lake compares
At roughly 177 frost-free days, Conneaut Lake places 26,214 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 975 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Conneaut Lake's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Conneaut Lake can differ from the 16131 normal.