West Lafayette, OH 43824 Frost Dates
West Lafayette, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
West Lafayette 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
With roughly 8 weeks until West Lafayette's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Lafayette against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 176 frost-free days, West Lafayette places 26,475 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 978 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43824's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around West Lafayette's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in West Lafayette can differ from the 43824 normal.