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Sugar Grove, OH 43155 Frost Dates

Sugar Grove, OH: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. 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 Sugar Grove, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 8 weeks until Sugar Grove's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Sugar Grove'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.

Sugar Grove against the rest of the dataset

About 183 days separate Sugar Grove's last and first frost, putting it 23,998 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 712 of 1,383.

Learn more

Before leaning on 43155's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Sugar Grove's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Sugar Grove's dates instead of trusting one.