Wallaceton, PA 16836 Frost Dates
16836, near Wallaceton, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 161 days after the last spring frost.
Wallaceton sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Wallaceton's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 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.
Wallaceton against the rest of the dataset
About 161 days separate Wallaceton's last and first frost, putting it 32,163 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,685 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 16836: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wallaceton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wallaceton can differ from the 16836 normal.