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Shippenville, PA 16364 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Shippenville, PA, ZIP 16364

Zone 6a

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.

Shippenville 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.

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 34,097 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,825 of 2,088.

Learn more

local microclimates explains what one yard in Shippenville can differ from the 16364 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Shippenville's frost date answer different questions.