FrostDateCheck

Nellie, OH 43844 Frost Dates

Nellie, OH: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

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.

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.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 7 weeks until Nellie's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Nellie'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.

Nellie against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 177 frost-free days, Nellie places 26,297 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 966 of 1,383.

Learn more

Before leaning on 43844's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Nellie can differ from the 43844 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Nellie's frost date answer different questions.