Hiram, OH 44234 Frost Dates
44234, near Hiram, OH: the frost window
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.
Hiram 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
Hiram'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 Hiram's last frost
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.
Hiram against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Hiram's last and first frost, putting it 29,125 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,184 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44234: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Hiram's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hiram's dates instead of trusting one.