Atwood, PA 16250 Frost Dates
Atwood, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/10, about 255 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 155 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Atwood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Atwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Atwood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 155 frost-free days, Atwood places 34,181 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,852 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16250's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Atwood can differ from the 16250 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Atwood's frost date answer different questions.