Pleasantville, OH 43148 Frost Dates
43148, near Pleasantville, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Pleasantville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pleasantville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Pleasantville's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pleasantville against the rest of the dataset
Pleasantville's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 23,930 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 707 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43148: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Pleasantville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pleasantville's dates instead of trusting one.