Blain, PA 17006 Frost Dates
17006, near Blain, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/21, roughly 236 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Blain sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 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
Blain's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Blain's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Blain against the rest of the dataset
About 185 days separate Blain's last and first frost, putting it 23,332 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 736 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17006: the frost range, on how to read the range around Blain's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Blain can differ from the 17006 normal.