Koppel, PA 16136 Frost Dates
Koppel, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. 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 Koppel 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 Koppel's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Koppel'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.
Koppel against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Koppel's last and first frost, putting it 28,424 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,399 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16136's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Koppel's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Koppel can differ from the 16136 normal.