Martinsburg, OH 43005 Frost Dates
Martinsburg, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 172 days after the last spring frost.
Martinsburg sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Martinsburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Martinsburg's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Martinsburg against the rest of the dataset
About 172 days separate Martinsburg's last and first frost, putting it 28,518 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,121 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43005's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Martinsburg can differ from the 43005 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Martinsburg's frost date answer different questions.