Dillonvale, OH 43948 Frost Dates
43948, near Dillonvale, 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.
Dillonvale 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
Dillonvale'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Dillonvale against the rest of the dataset
About 196 days separate Dillonvale's last and first frost, putting it 19,062 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 123 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43948: the frost range, on how to read the range around Dillonvale's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Dillonvale can differ from the 43948 normal.