Medina, OH 44256 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Medina, OH?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 167 frost-free days later.
Medina 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 7 weeks of growing season left in Medina before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Medina's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Medina compares
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Medina places 29,879 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,226 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Medina's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Medina can differ from the 44256 normal.