Youngsville, PA 16329 Frost Dates
Youngsville, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/22, about 267 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/30, roughly 131 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 Youngsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Youngsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Youngsville's last frost
05/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Youngsville against the rest of the dataset
About 131 days separate Youngsville's last and first frost, putting it 38,291 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 2,067 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16329's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Youngsville can differ from the 16329 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Youngsville's frost date answer different questions.