New Albany, OH 43054 Frost Dates
New Albany, OH: when does the frost end?
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 191 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 New Albany, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until New Albany's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around New Albany's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Albany against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 191 frost-free days, New Albany places 20,733 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 289 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43054's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and New Albany's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around New Albany's dates instead of trusting one.