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Ashville, PA 16629 Frost Dates

Ashville, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

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 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.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 8 weeks until Ashville'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

04/23 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.

Ashville against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 177 frost-free days, Ashville places 26,271 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 997 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 16629's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ashville can differ from the 16629 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Ashville's frost date answer different questions.