Conneaut Lake, PA 16422 Frost Dates
Conneaut Lake, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 177 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 Conneaut Lake, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Conneaut Lake's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Conneaut Lake'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 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Conneaut Lake against the rest of the dataset
Conneaut Lake's growing season runs about 177 days, ranking 26,215 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 976 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16422's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Conneaut Lake can differ from the 16422 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Conneaut Lake's frost date answer different questions.