Bear Lake, PA 16405 Frost Dates
16405, near Bear Lake, PA: the frost window
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 Bear Lake, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bear Lake's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Bear Lake'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.
Bear Lake against the rest of the dataset
Bear Lake's growing season runs about 131 days, ranking 38,343 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 2,088 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 16405: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bear Lake's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bear Lake can differ from the 16405 normal.