Malinta, OH 43523 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Malinta, OH, ZIP 43523
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/21, about 179 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 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 Malinta, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Malinta has about 8 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.
The actual range around Malinta's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Malinta compares
About 179 days separate Malinta's last and first frost, putting it 25,495 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 816 of 1,383.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Malinta's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Malinta's dates instead of trusting one.