Pleasantville, PA 16655 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pleasantville, PA, ZIP 16655
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/23, roughly 238 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 177 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pleasantville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Pleasantville has about 8 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 Pleasantville's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/08 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pleasantville compares
Pleasantville's growing season runs about 177 days, ranking 26,272 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 998 of 2,088.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Pleasantville can differ from the 16655 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Pleasantville's frost date answer different questions.