Chest Springs, PA 16624 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Chest Springs, PA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 176 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Chest Springs in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Chest Springs before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Chest Springs's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/17 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Chest Springs compares
At roughly 176 frost-free days, Chest Springs places 26,667 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,105 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Chest Springs's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Chest Springs can differ from the 16624 normal.