Worthington, OH 43235 Frost Dates
43235, near Worthington, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 183 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 Worthington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Worthington'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.
Why 04/22 isn't a guarantee
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 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.
Worthington against the rest of the dataset
Worthington's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 23,794 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 693 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43235: the frost range, on how to read the range around Worthington's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Worthington can differ from the 43235 normal.