Tiltonsville, OH 43963 Frost Dates
43963, near Tiltonsville, OH: the frost window
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Tiltonsville in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tiltonsville'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.
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.
Tiltonsville against the rest of the dataset
About 196 days separate Tiltonsville's last and first frost, putting it 19,023 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 117 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43963: the frost range, on how to read the range around Tiltonsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Tiltonsville can differ from the 43963 normal.