Spencer, OH 44253 Frost Dates
44253, near Spencer, 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 10/24, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Spencer 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
Spencer'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 Spencer's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Spencer against the rest of the dataset
About 182 days separate Spencer's last and first frost, putting it 24,256 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 738 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44253: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Spencer's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Spencer's dates instead of trusting one.