Kirkersville, OH 43033 Frost Dates
43033, near Kirkersville, OH: the frost window
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Kirkersville in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Kirkersville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kirkersville against the rest of the dataset
About 178 days separate Kirkersville's last and first frost, putting it 25,878 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 885 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43033: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kirkersville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kirkersville can differ from the 43033 normal.