Broad Top City, PA 16621 Frost Dates
16621, near Broad Top City, PA: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Broad Top City in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Broad Top City's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Broad Top City's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Broad Top City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 177 frost-free days, Broad Top City places 26,246 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 988 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 16621: the frost range, on how to read the range around Broad Top City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Broad Top City can differ from the 16621 normal.