Cumberland, OH 43732 Frost Dates
43732, near Cumberland, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Cumberland 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
Cumberland's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cumberland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Cumberland places 30,179 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,339 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43732: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cumberland can differ from the 43732 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Cumberland's frost date answer different questions.