Ashville, PA 16636 Frost Dates
Ashville, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/13, roughly 258 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 142 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ashville in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 5 weeks until Ashville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ashville's last frost
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ashville against the rest of the dataset
About 142 days separate Ashville's last and first frost, putting it 36,826 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,967 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16636's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ashville can differ from the 16636 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Ashville's frost date answer different questions.