Barberton, OH 44203 Frost Dates
44203, near Barberton, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
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 Barberton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Barberton'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.
Why 04/24 isn't a guarantee
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Barberton against the rest of the dataset
Barberton's growing season runs about 186 days, ranking 22,719 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 462 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44203: local microclimates, on what one yard in Barberton can differ from the 44203 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Barberton's frost date answer different questions.