Macedonia, OH 44056 Frost Dates
Macedonia, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
Macedonia 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 11 weeks until Macedonia's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Macedonia's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Macedonia against the rest of the dataset
About 217 days separate Macedonia's last and first frost, putting it 13,436 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 21 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44056's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Macedonia can differ from the 44056 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Macedonia's frost date answer different questions.