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Summerfield, OH 43788 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Summerfield, OH, ZIP 43788

Zone 6b

Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 167 frost-free days later.

Summerfield 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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6b around Summerfield has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Summerfield's last frost

04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Summerfield compares

At roughly 167 frost-free days, Summerfield places 30,197 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,348 of 1,383.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Summerfield's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Summerfield's dates instead of trusting one.