Rayland, OH 43943 Frost Dates
43943, near Rayland, OH: the frost window
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.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Rayland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Rayland'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 Rayland'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.
Rayland against the rest of the dataset
Rayland's growing season runs about 196 days, ranking 19,078 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 124 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43943: local microclimates, on what one yard in Rayland can differ from the 43943 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Rayland's frost date answer different questions.