Elyria, OH 44035 Frost Dates
44035, near Elyria, OH: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 182 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 Elyria, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Elyria's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Elyria's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elyria against the rest of the dataset
Elyria's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,067 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 722 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44035: the frost range, on how to read the range around Elyria's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Elyria can differ from the 44035 normal.