Harbor View, OH 43656 Frost Dates
Harbor View, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, 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 Harbor View, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Harbor View's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Harbor View's last frost
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
About 188 days separate Harbor View's last and first frost, putting it 22,246 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 422 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43656's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Harbor View's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Harbor View's dates instead of trusting one.