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Wickliffe, OH 44092 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Wickliffe, OH?

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 184 frost-free days later.

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 Wickliffe, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

About 9 weeks of growing season left in Wickliffe before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Wickliffe's last frost

04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Wickliffe compares

At roughly 184 frost-free days, Wickliffe places 23,461 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 622 of 1,383.

Learn more

local microclimates covers what one yard in Wickliffe can differ from the 44092 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Wickliffe's frost date answer different questions.