Crown City, OH 25520 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Crown City, OH?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/29, about 192 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 Crown City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Crown City before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Crown City's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/03 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 Crown City compares
About 192 days separate Crown City's last and first frost, putting it 20,531 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 266 of 1,383.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7a and Crown City's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Crown City's dates instead of trusting one.