Lockbourne, OH 43137 Frost Dates
43137, near Lockbourne, OH: the frost window
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.
Lockbourne 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
Lockbourne'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.
The actual range around Lockbourne's last frost
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.
Lockbourne against the rest of the dataset
Lockbourne's growing season runs about 177 days, ranking 26,266 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 958 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43137: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lockbourne's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lockbourne can differ from the 43137 normal.