Nellie, OH 43843 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Nellie, OH, ZIP 43843
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 172 frost-free days later.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Nellie, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Nellie 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 Nellie's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Nellie compares
About 172 days separate Nellie's last and first frost, putting it 28,537 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,124 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Nellie's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Nellie can differ from the 43843 normal.