Sandy Lake, PA 16145 Frost Dates
16145, near Sandy Lake, PA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/15, about 260 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 140 days after the last spring frost.
Sandy 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Sandy Lake'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 Sandy Lake'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.
Sandy Lake against the rest of the dataset
About 140 days separate Sandy Lake's last and first frost, putting it 37,114 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 2,007 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 16145: local microclimates, on what one yard in Sandy Lake can differ from the 16145 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Sandy Lake's frost date answer different questions.