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Millersport, OH 43046 Frost Dates

43046, near Millersport, OH: the frost window

Zone 6a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.

Millersport sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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

Millersport'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.

The actual range around Millersport's last frost

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.

Millersport against the rest of the dataset

About 178 days separate Millersport's last and first frost, putting it 25,826 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 876 of 1,383.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 43046: the frost range, on how to read the range around Millersport's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Millersport can differ from the 43046 normal.