Fultonham, OH 43735 Frost Dates
43735, near Fultonham, OH: the frost window
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Fultonham, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fultonham's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fultonham against the rest of the dataset
Fultonham's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,765 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 352 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43735: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fultonham can differ from the 43735 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Fultonham's frost date answer different questions.