Genoa, OH 43430 Frost Dates
Genoa, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Genoa sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Genoa's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Genoa against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Genoa places 22,073 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 389 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43430's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Genoa's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Genoa can differ from the 43430 normal.