Scio, OH 43988 Frost Dates
Scio, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 176 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 Scio, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Scio's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Scio's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 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.
Scio against the rest of the dataset
About 176 days separate Scio's last and first frost, putting it 26,587 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 988 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43988's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Scio can differ from the 43988 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Scio's frost date answer different questions.