Buckeye Lake, OH 43008 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Buckeye Lake, OH, ZIP 43008
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/18, about 178 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 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 Buckeye Lake, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Buckeye Lake 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 Buckeye Lake's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Buckeye Lake compares
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Buckeye Lake places 25,736 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 852 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Buckeye Lake's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Buckeye Lake can differ from the 43008 normal.