Mount Pleasant, OH 43939 Frost Dates
43939, near Mount Pleasant, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/18, roughly 233 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Mount Pleasant 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
Mount Pleasant's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Mount Pleasant's last frost
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.
Mount Pleasant against the rest of the dataset
About 196 days separate Mount Pleasant's last and first frost, putting it 19,080 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 126 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43939: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Mount Pleasant's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Mount Pleasant's dates instead of trusting one.