Peninsula, OH 44264 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Peninsula, OH?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 186 frost-free days later.
Peninsula sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 9 weeks of growing season left in Peninsula before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Peninsula's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Peninsula compares
At roughly 186 frost-free days, Peninsula places 22,903 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 510 of 1,383.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Peninsula's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Peninsula's dates instead of trusting one.