Commercial Point, OH 43116 Frost Dates
43116, near Commercial Point, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.
Commercial Point 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
Commercial Point'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.
Why 04/23 isn't a guarantee
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Commercial Point against the rest of the dataset
About 177 days separate Commercial Point's last and first frost, putting it 26,121 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 926 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43116: the frost range, on how to read the range around Commercial Point's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Commercial Point can differ from the 43116 normal.