Ney, OH 43520 Frost Dates
Ney, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Ney 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Ney's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ney's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ney against the rest of the dataset
Ney's growing season runs about 170 days, ranking 29,220 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,193 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43520's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Ney's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Ney can differ from the 43520 normal.