Powell, OH 43035 Frost Dates
43035, near Powell, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Powell sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Powell'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.
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 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Powell against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 183 frost-free days, Powell places 23,796 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 695 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43035: the frost range, on how to read the range around Powell's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Powell can differ from the 43035 normal.