Cochranton, PA 16314 Frost Dates
16314, near Cochranton, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 175 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 Cochranton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cochranton's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cochranton against the rest of the dataset
Cochranton's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 27,072 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 1,211 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 16314: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Cochranton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cochranton's dates instead of trusting one.