Mogadore, OH 44260 Frost Dates
44260, near Mogadore, 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 10/28, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mogadore in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mogadore'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.
The actual range around Mogadore's last frost
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.
Mogadore against the rest of the dataset
Mogadore's growing season runs about 186 days, ranking 22,800 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 485 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44260: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mogadore's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mogadore can differ from the 44260 normal.