Coshocton, OH 43812 Frost Dates
43812, near Coshocton, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Coshocton 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
Coshocton'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 Coshocton's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Coshocton against the rest of the dataset
Coshocton's growing season runs about 177 days, ranking 26,059 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 916 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43812: local microclimates, on what one yard in Coshocton can differ from the 43812 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Coshocton's frost date answer different questions.