Danville, OH 43028 Frost Dates
Danville, 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.
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 Danville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Danville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Danville'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.
Danville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 172 frost-free days, Danville places 28,398 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,118 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43028's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Danville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Danville can differ from the 43028 normal.