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Sherwood, OH 43536 Frost Dates

Sherwood, OH: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

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.

Sherwood 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 Sherwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Sherwood'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.

Sherwood against the rest of the dataset

About 170 days separate Sherwood's last and first frost, putting it 29,139 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,185 of 1,383.

Learn more

Before leaning on 43536's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Sherwood's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Sherwood can differ from the 43536 normal.