Lithopolis, OH 43136 Frost Dates
43136, near Lithopolis, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Lithopolis 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
Lithopolis'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 04/26 isn't a guarantee
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lithopolis against the rest of the dataset
About 169 days separate Lithopolis's last and first frost, putting it 29,446 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,205 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43136: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lithopolis can differ from the 43136 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Lithopolis's frost date answer different questions.