Proctorville, OH 25705 Frost Dates
25705, near Proctorville, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
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 Proctorville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Proctorville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Proctorville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Proctorville places 16,390 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 63 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 25705: local microclimates, on what one yard in Proctorville can differ from the 25705 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Proctorville's frost date answer different questions.