New Lexington, OH 43761 Frost Dates
43761, near New Lexington, 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 New Lexington in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
New Lexington'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 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Lexington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, New Lexington places 29,960 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,265 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43761: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and New Lexington's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around New Lexington's dates instead of trusting one.