Quincy, OH 43343 Frost Dates
43343, near Quincy, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Quincy 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
Quincy'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 04/27 isn't a guarantee
04/27 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.
Quincy against the rest of the dataset
Quincy's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 27,161 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,062 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43343: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Quincy's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Quincy's dates instead of trusting one.