Bellefonte, PA 16823 Frost Dates
Bellefonte, PA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 187 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Bellefonte, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Bellefonte'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
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bellefonte against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 187 frost-free days, Bellefonte places 22,350 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 610 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16823's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bellefonte can differ from the 16823 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Bellefonte's frost date answer different questions.