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Centerville, PA 16404 Frost Dates

Centerville, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.

Centerville 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 8 weeks until Centerville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Centerville'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.

Centerville against the rest of the dataset

About 175 days separate Centerville's last and first frost, putting it 27,263 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,274 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 16404's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Centerville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Centerville's dates instead of trusting one.