Kent, OH 44240 Frost Dates
44240, near Kent, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Kent, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Kent'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
04/24 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.
Kent against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 186 frost-free days, Kent places 22,714 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 457 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44240: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kent's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kent can differ from the 44240 normal.