Pleasant City, OH 43733 Frost Dates
43733, near Pleasant City, OH: the frost window
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pleasant City in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pleasant City'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.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
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.
Pleasant City against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Pleasant City's last and first frost, putting it 30,158 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,333 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43733: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Pleasant City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pleasant City's dates instead of trusting one.