Volant, PA 16156 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Volant, PA, ZIP 16156
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/15, roughly 260 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/03, about 140 frost-free days later.
Volant 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 Volant has about 5 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.
The actual range around Volant's last frost
05/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 06/01 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Volant compares
At roughly 140 frost-free days, Volant places 37,193 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 2,046 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Volant's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Volant can differ from the 16156 normal.