Whitehouse, OH 43547 Frost Dates
43547, near Whitehouse, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Whitehouse 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
Whitehouse's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Whitehouse against the rest of the dataset
About 188 days separate Whitehouse's last and first frost, putting it 21,991 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 380 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43547: the frost range, on how to read the range around Whitehouse's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Whitehouse can differ from the 43547 normal.