Sherwood, OH 43556 Frost Dates
43556, near Sherwood, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Sherwood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Sherwood'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.
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 04/13 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.
Sherwood against the rest of the dataset
Sherwood's growing season runs about 170 days, ranking 29,140 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,186 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43556: the frost range, on how to read the range around Sherwood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Sherwood can differ from the 43556 normal.