Huntingdon, PA 16652 Frost Dates
16652, near Huntingdon, PA: the frost window
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Huntingdon 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
Huntingdon's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Huntingdon against the rest of the dataset
About 187 days separate Huntingdon's last and first frost, putting it 22,344 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 609 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 16652: local microclimates, on what one yard in Huntingdon can differ from the 16652 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Huntingdon's frost date answer different questions.