Orangeville, PA 17858 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Orangeville, PA?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 172 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Orangeville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Orangeville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Orangeville's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Orangeville compares
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Orangeville places 28,446 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 1,404 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Orangeville's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Orangeville can differ from the 17858 normal.