Murray City, OH 43144 Frost Dates
43144, near Murray City, OH: the frost window
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 167 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 Murray City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Murray City'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 Murray City's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Murray City against the rest of the dataset
Murray City's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 30,174 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,337 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43144: local microclimates, on what one yard in Murray City can differ from the 43144 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Murray City's frost date answer different questions.