FrostDateCheck

Millheim, PA 16820 Frost Dates

Millheim, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.

Millheim 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

With roughly 7 weeks until Millheim's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

How much risk comes with planting early here

04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 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.

Millheim against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 175 frost-free days, Millheim places 27,110 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,225 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 16820's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Millheim's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Millheim's dates instead of trusting one.