Wesleyville, PA 16550 Frost Dates
16550, near Wesleyville, PA: the frost window
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
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.
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
About 192 days separate Wesleyville's last and first frost, putting it 20,355 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 541 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 16550: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wesleyville can differ from the 16550 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Wesleyville's frost date answer different questions.