FrostDateCheck

Marblehead, OH 43440 Frost Dates

Marblehead, OH: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Marblehead in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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

With roughly 10 weeks until Marblehead's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Marblehead's last frost

04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Marblehead against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 209 frost-free days, Marblehead places 15,339 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 53 of 1,383.

Learn more

Before leaning on 43440's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Marblehead's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Marblehead can differ from the 43440 normal.