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Green, OH 44232 Frost Dates

44232, near Green, OH: the frost window

Zone 6b

Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Green in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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

Green'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.

The actual range around Green's last frost

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 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Green against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 184 frost-free days, Green places 23,431 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 609 of 1,383.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 44232: local microclimates, on what one yard in Green can differ from the 44232 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Green's frost date answer different questions.