Prospect, OH 43342 Frost Dates
43342, near Prospect, 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 10/20, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
Prospect sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Prospect'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 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.
Prospect against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Prospect places 25,819 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 873 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43342: the frost range, on how to read the range around Prospect's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Prospect can differ from the 43342 normal.