Turbotville, PA 17772 Frost Dates
17772, near Turbotville, PA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Turbotville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Turbotville'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 Turbotville's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Turbotville against the rest of the dataset
About 176 days separate Turbotville's last and first frost, putting it 26,584 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within PA, it ranks 1,084 of 2,088.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 17772: local microclimates, on what one yard in Turbotville can differ from the 17772 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Turbotville's frost date answer different questions.