Painesville, OH 44077 Frost Dates
Painesville, OH: when does the frost end?
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Painesville 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Painesville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Painesville against the rest of the dataset
About 184 days separate Painesville's last and first frost, putting it 23,449 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 615 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44077's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Painesville can differ from the 44077 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Painesville's frost date answer different questions.