Girard, PA 16415 Frost Dates
Girard, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 192 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 Girard, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Girard's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/26 isn't a guarantee
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Girard against the rest of the dataset
Girard's growing season runs about 192 days, ranking 20,359 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 544 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16415's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Girard's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Girard's dates instead of trusting one.