Crooksville, OH 43731 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Crooksville, OH, ZIP 43731
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 189 frost-free days later.
Crooksville 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Crooksville 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.
The actual range around Crooksville's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Crooksville compares
Crooksville's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,603 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 345 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Crooksville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Crooksville can differ from the 43731 normal.