North Lewisburg, OH 43009 Frost Dates
43009, near North Lewisburg, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
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 North Lewisburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
North Lewisburg's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/26 isn't a guarantee
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Lewisburg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, North Lewisburg places 27,018 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,037 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43009: local microclimates, on what one yard in North Lewisburg can differ from the 43009 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and North Lewisburg's frost date answer different questions.