Stafford, OH 43754 Frost Dates
43754, near Stafford, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. 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 Stafford 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
Stafford'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.
The actual range around Stafford's last frost
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.
Stafford against the rest of the dataset
Stafford's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 30,251 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,375 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43754: the frost range, on how to read the range around Stafford's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Stafford can differ from the 43754 normal.