Hicksville, OH 43526 Frost Dates
Hicksville, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Hicksville 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 Hicksville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hicksville's last frost
04/28 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 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hicksville against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Hicksville's last and first frost, putting it 29,021 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,163 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43526's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hicksville can differ from the 43526 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Hicksville's frost date answer different questions.