Avon, OH 44011 Frost Dates
44011, near Avon, OH: the frost window
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Avon in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Avon's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Avon's last frost
04/20 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 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Avon against the rest of the dataset
Avon's growing season runs about 198 days, ranking 18,347 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 89 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44011: the frost range, on how to read the range around Avon's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Avon can differ from the 44011 normal.