Florida, OH 43530 Frost Dates
Florida, OH: when does the frost end?
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Florida in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Florida's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Florida's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Florida against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Florida places 29,239 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,197 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43530's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Florida's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Florida can differ from the 43530 normal.