West Jefferson, OH 43162 Frost Dates
43162, near West Jefferson, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 175 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 West Jefferson, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
West Jefferson'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 West Jefferson's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Jefferson against the rest of the dataset
West Jefferson's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 26,887 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,020 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43162: the frost range, on how to read the range around West Jefferson's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in West Jefferson can differ from the 43162 normal.