Ashville, PA 16613 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Ashville, PA, ZIP 16613
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 177 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ashville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 6b around Ashville has about 8 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 Ashville's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/08 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Ashville compares
Ashville's growing season runs about 177 days, ranking 26,270 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 996 of 2,088.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Ashville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Ashville's dates instead of trusting one.