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Corry, PA 16436 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Corry, PA, ZIP 16436

Zone 5b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/22, roughly 267 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 09/30, about 131 frost-free days later.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Corry in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 5b around Corry has about 5 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Corry's last frost

05/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 05/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 06/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Corry compares

About 131 days separate Corry's last and first frost, putting it 38,263 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 2,066 of 2,088.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Corry's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Corry's dates instead of trusting one.