Elmore, OH 43416 Frost Dates
43416, near Elmore, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Elmore, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Elmore's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Elmore's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 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.
Elmore against the rest of the dataset
Elmore's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 22,096 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 394 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43416: local microclimates, on what one yard in Elmore can differ from the 43416 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Elmore's frost date answer different questions.