Put-in-Bay, OH 43456 Frost Dates
Put-in-Bay, OH: when does the frost end?
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.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Put-in-Bay, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Put-in-Bay'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
04/10 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.
Put-in-Bay against the rest of the dataset
About 209 days separate Put-in-Bay's last and first frost, putting it 15,436 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 61 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43456's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Put-in-Bay's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Put-in-Bay can differ from the 43456 normal.