Broad Top City, PA 16694 Frost Dates
16694, near Broad Top City, PA: the frost window
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.
Broad Top City 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
Broad Top City'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.
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
Broad Top City's growing season runs about 177 days, ranking 26,248 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 990 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 16694: local microclimates, on what one yard in Broad Top City can differ from the 16694 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Broad Top City's frost date answer different questions.