Pickerington, OH 43147 Frost Dates
43147, near Pickerington, OH: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pickerington in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pickerington'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 04/23 isn't a guarantee
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.
Pickerington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 177 frost-free days, Pickerington places 26,032 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 910 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43147: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pickerington can differ from the 43147 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Pickerington's frost date answer different questions.