North Kingsville, OH 44068 Frost Dates
44068, near North Kingsville, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/02, roughly 247 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
North Kingsville 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
North Kingsville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Kingsville against the rest of the dataset
About 171 days separate North Kingsville's last and first frost, putting it 28,669 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,136 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44068: local microclimates, on what one yard in North Kingsville can differ from the 44068 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and North Kingsville's frost date answer different questions.