Glen Hope, PA 16645 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Glen Hope, PA, ZIP 16645
Around 05/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 258 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/01, about 142 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Glen Hope, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Glen Hope has about 5 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 Glen Hope's last frost
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/25 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Glen Hope compares
At roughly 142 frost-free days, Glen Hope places 36,838 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,968 of 2,088.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Glen Hope's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Glen Hope's dates instead of trusting one.