Ebensburg, PA 16699 Frost Dates
Ebensburg, PA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Ebensburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Ebensburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ebensburg's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ebensburg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 176 frost-free days, Ebensburg places 26,463 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,041 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16699's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Ebensburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Ebensburg can differ from the 16699 normal.