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Walbridge, OH 43465 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Walbridge, OH?

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 188 frost-free days later.

Walbridge 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.

What to do before the first frost

About 9 weeks of growing season left in Walbridge before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Walbridge's last frost

04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Walbridge compares

Walbridge's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 22,049 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 388 of 1,383.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Walbridge's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Walbridge's dates instead of trusting one.