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Adena, OH 43901 Frost Dates

Adena, OH: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.

Adena 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 9 weeks until Adena's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

Why 04/18 isn't a guarantee

04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Adena against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 196 frost-free days, Adena places 19,052 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 120 of 1,383.

Learn more

Before leaning on 43901's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Adena can differ from the 43901 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Adena's frost date answer different questions.