West Unity, OH 43570 Frost Dates
West Unity, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
West Unity 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 West Unity's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around West Unity's last frost
04/26 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 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Unity against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 170 frost-free days, West Unity places 29,067 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,167 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43570's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around West Unity's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in West Unity can differ from the 43570 normal.