Valley Hi, OH 43336 Frost Dates
Valley Hi, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 175 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 Valley Hi, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Valley Hi's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Valley Hi's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Valley Hi against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Valley Hi places 27,251 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,082 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43336's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Valley Hi can differ from the 43336 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Valley Hi's frost date answer different questions.