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Sylvania, OH 43560 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Sylvania, OH, ZIP 43560

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 188 frost-free days later.

Sylvania sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6b around Sylvania has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

How much risk comes with planting early here

04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/06 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Sylvania compares

At roughly 188 frost-free days, Sylvania places 21,876 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 370 of 1,383.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Sylvania's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Sylvania's dates instead of trusting one.