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Burgoon, OH 43407 Frost Dates

43407, near Burgoon, OH: the frost window

Zone 6a

Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 183 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Burgoon 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

Burgoon'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 Burgoon's last frost

04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Burgoon against the rest of the dataset

Burgoon's growing season runs about 183 days, ranking 24,030 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 717 of 1,383.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 43407: local microclimates, on what one yard in Burgoon can differ from the 43407 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Burgoon's frost date answer different questions.