Garrettsville, OH 44231 Frost Dates
Garrettsville, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Garrettsville sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Garrettsville'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
05/01 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 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Garrettsville against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Garrettsville's last and first frost, putting it 29,041 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,165 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44231's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Garrettsville can differ from the 44231 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Garrettsville's frost date answer different questions.