Deshler, OH 43516 Frost Dates
43516, near Deshler, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
Deshler sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Deshler's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/24 isn't a guarantee
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Deshler against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Deshler's last and first frost, putting it 25,372 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 804 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43516: the frost range, on how to read the range around Deshler's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Deshler can differ from the 43516 normal.