Kane, PA 16734 Frost Dates
16734, near Kane, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/18, roughly 263 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 136 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Kane, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Kane's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/18 isn't a guarantee
05/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kane against the rest of the dataset
Kane's growing season runs about 136 days, ranking 37,683 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within PA, it ranks 2,049 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 16734: local microclimates, on what one yard in Kane can differ from the 16734 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Kane's frost date answer different questions.