Tontogany, OH 43565 Frost Dates
43565, near Tontogany, OH: the frost window
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Tontogany, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tontogany'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.
The actual range around Tontogany's last frost
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.
Tontogany against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Tontogany places 22,174 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 407 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43565: local microclimates, on what one yard in Tontogany can differ from the 43565 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Tontogany's frost date answer different questions.