West Mansfield, OH 43358 Frost Dates
43358, near West Mansfield, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts West Mansfield in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
West Mansfield'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 West Mansfield'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.
West Mansfield against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate West Mansfield's last and first frost, putting it 27,122 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,057 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43358: the frost range, on how to read the range around West Mansfield's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in West Mansfield can differ from the 43358 normal.