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Wesleyville, PA 16510 Frost Dates

16510, near Wesleyville, PA: the frost window

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. 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 Wesleyville, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Wesleyville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Wesleyville's last frost

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.

Wesleyville against the rest of the dataset

About 192 days separate Wesleyville's last and first frost, putting it 20,343 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 529 of 2,088.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 16510: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wesleyville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wesleyville can differ from the 16510 normal.