Shippenville, PA 16254 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Shippenville, PA, ZIP 16254
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/10, roughly 255 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/12, about 155 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Shippenville in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Shippenville has about 6 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 Shippenville's last frost
05/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Shippenville compares
About 155 days separate Shippenville's last and first frost, putting it 34,094 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,822 of 2,088.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Shippenville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Shippenville's dates instead of trusting one.