Urbancrest, OH 43123 Frost Dates
Urbancrest, OH: when does the frost end?
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.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Urbancrest, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Urbancrest's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Urbancrest against the rest of the dataset
About 177 days separate Urbancrest's last and first frost, putting it 26,190 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 936 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43123's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Urbancrest can differ from the 43123 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Urbancrest's frost date answer different questions.