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Medina, OH 44258 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Medina, OH, ZIP 44258

Zone 6a

Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 167 frost-free days later.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Medina in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6a around Medina has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

How much risk comes with planting early here

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 29,880 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,227 of 1,383.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Medina's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Medina can differ from the 44258 normal.