Lowellville, OH 16140 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lowellville, OH, ZIP 16140
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 167 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lowellville in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Lowellville has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Lowellville's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lowellville compares
About 167 days separate Lowellville's last and first frost, putting it 30,085 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,298 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Lowellville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Lowellville can differ from the 16140 normal.