Eldred, PA 16731 Frost Dates
Eldred, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/07, about 252 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Eldred in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Eldred's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Eldred's last frost
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eldred against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 156 frost-free days, Eldred places 33,753 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,767 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16731's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Eldred can differ from the 16731 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Eldred's frost date answer different questions.