Conneaut Lake, PA 16316 Frost Dates
16316, near Conneaut Lake, 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.
Conneaut 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
Conneaut Lake'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.
The actual range around Conneaut Lake's last frost
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.
Conneaut Lake against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Conneaut Lake places 27,148 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,240 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 16316: the frost range, on how to read the range around Conneaut Lake's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Conneaut Lake can differ from the 16316 normal.