Galeton, PA 16922 Frost Dates
Galeton, PA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 259 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Galeton in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
With roughly 5 weeks until Galeton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Galeton's last frost
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Galeton against the rest of the dataset
About 143 days separate Galeton's last and first frost, putting it 36,566 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,935 of 2,088.
Learn more
Before leaning on 16922's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Galeton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Galeton's dates instead of trusting one.