Holiday City, OH 43531 Frost Dates
43531, near Holiday City, OH: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Holiday City 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
Holiday City's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Holiday City against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Holiday City's last and first frost, putting it 29,278 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,203 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43531: the frost range, on how to read the range around Holiday City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Holiday City can differ from the 43531 normal.