Wesleyville, PA 16538 Frost Dates
Wesleyville, PA: when does the frost end?
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 7a (0 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 Wesleyville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Wesleyville'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
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
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Wesleyville places 20,351 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 537 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16538's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wesleyville can differ from the 16538 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Wesleyville's frost date answer different questions.