Wellersburg, PA 21529 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Wellersburg, PA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 190 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Wellersburg, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Wellersburg before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Wellersburg's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Wellersburg compares
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Wellersburg places 21,313 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within PA, it ranks 556 of 2,088.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Wellersburg's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Wellersburg can differ from the 21529 normal.