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Youngsville, PA 16369 Frost Dates

Youngsville, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

Around 05/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 267 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/30, roughly 131 days after the last spring frost.

Youngsville 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

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 38,296 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 2,072 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 16369's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Youngsville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Youngsville's dates instead of trusting one.