Wallaceton, PA 16876 Frost Dates
16876, near Wallaceton, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/13, roughly 258 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 142 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wallaceton in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wallaceton'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.
The actual range around Wallaceton'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.
Wallaceton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 142 frost-free days, Wallaceton places 36,817 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,965 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 16876: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wallaceton can differ from the 16876 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Wallaceton's frost date answer different questions.