Rock Creek, OH 44084 Frost Dates
44084, near Rock Creek, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Rock Creek in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Rock Creek'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.
Rock Creek against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 171 frost-free days, Rock Creek places 28,768 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,144 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44084: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Rock Creek's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Rock Creek's dates instead of trusting one.