Lake City, PA 16411 Frost Dates
Lake City, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 253 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 160 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Lake City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Lake City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake City against the rest of the dataset
About 160 days separate Lake City's last and first frost, putting it 32,328 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,701 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16411's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Lake City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake City's dates instead of trusting one.