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Milledgeville, OH 43142 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Milledgeville, OH?

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 188 frost-free days later.

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 Milledgeville, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

About 8 weeks of growing season left in Milledgeville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Milledgeville's last frost

04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/03 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Milledgeville compares

Milledgeville's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 22,237 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 416 of 1,383.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Milledgeville's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Milledgeville can differ from the 43142 normal.