Thornville, OH 43076 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Thornville, OH, ZIP 43076
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/18, about 178 frost-free days later.
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 Thornville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Thornville has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Thornville compares
About 178 days separate Thornville's last and first frost, putting it 25,812 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 871 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Thornville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Thornville can differ from the 43076 normal.