Shippenville, PA 16375 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Shippenville, PA?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/10, about 255 days from today. 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
About 6 weeks of growing season left in Shippenville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
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
At roughly 155 frost-free days, Shippenville places 34,098 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,826 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Shippenville's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Shippenville can differ from the 16375 normal.