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North Perry, OH 44097 Frost Dates

44097, near North Perry, OH: the frost window

Zone 7a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.

North Perry sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Perry's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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

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.

North Perry against the rest of the dataset

About 184 days separate North Perry's last and first frost, putting it 23,599 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 653 of 1,383.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 44097: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and North Perry's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around North Perry's dates instead of trusting one.