Mount Victory, OH 43340 Frost Dates
43340, near Mount Victory, 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 10/24, roughly 182 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 Mount Victory, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mount Victory'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.
The actual range around Mount Victory's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mount Victory against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Mount Victory places 24,270 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 742 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43340: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Mount Victory's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Mount Victory's dates instead of trusting one.