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Roseville, PA 16936 Frost Dates

Roseville, PA: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/09, about 254 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 155 days after the last spring frost.

Roseville 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 6 weeks until Roseville'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

05/09 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 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Roseville against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 155 frost-free days, Roseville places 34,161 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,848 of 2,088.

Learn more

Before leaning on 16936's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Roseville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Roseville can differ from the 16936 normal.