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Hollidaysburg, PA 16648 Frost Dates

Hollidaysburg, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.

Hollidaysburg sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 8 weeks until Hollidaysburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

Why 04/23 isn't a guarantee

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.

Hollidaysburg against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 177 frost-free days, Hollidaysburg places 26,103 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 945 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 16648's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hollidaysburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hollidaysburg can differ from the 16648 normal.