Woodsfield, OH 43793 Frost Dates
43793, near Woodsfield, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Woodsfield 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Woodsfield'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.
Why 04/26 isn't a guarantee
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodsfield against the rest of the dataset
Woodsfield's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,182 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 732 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43793: local microclimates, on what one yard in Woodsfield can differ from the 43793 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Woodsfield's frost date answer different questions.