Put-in-Bay, OH 43446 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Put-in-Bay, OH, ZIP 43446
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 209 frost-free days later.
Put-in-Bay sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Put-in-Bay has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Put-in-Bay compares
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Put-in-Bay places 15,435 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 60 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Put-in-Bay's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Put-in-Bay can differ from the 43446 normal.