Carey, OH 43316 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Carey, OH, ZIP 43316
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 171 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Carey in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Carey has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Carey's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Carey compares
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Carey places 28,640 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,129 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Carey's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Carey can differ from the 43316 normal.