Philipsburg, PA 16866 Frost Dates
Philipsburg, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 258 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 142 days after the last spring frost.
Philipsburg 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Philipsburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Philipsburg's last frost
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Philipsburg against the rest of the dataset
About 142 days separate Philipsburg's last and first frost, putting it 36,741 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,942 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16866's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Philipsburg's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Philipsburg's dates instead of trusting one.