Broad Top City, PA 16674 Frost Dates
Broad Top City, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Broad Top City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Broad Top City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Broad Top City's last frost
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.
Broad Top City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 177 frost-free days, Broad Top City places 26,247 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 989 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16674's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Broad Top City can differ from the 16674 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Broad Top City's frost date answer different questions.