Harbor View, OH 43654 Frost Dates
43654, near Harbor View, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Harbor View 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Harbor View's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/20 isn't a guarantee
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 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.
Harbor View against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Harbor View places 22,245 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 421 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43654: the frost range, on how to read the range around Harbor View's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Harbor View can differ from the 43654 normal.