Wintersville, OH 43953 Frost Dates
Wintersville, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Wintersville 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 8 weeks until Wintersville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wintersville against the rest of the dataset
Wintersville's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 26,906 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,023 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43953's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wintersville can differ from the 43953 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Wintersville's frost date answer different questions.