Hartville, OH 44265 Frost Dates
44265, near Hartville, OH: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Hartville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hartville'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.
Why 04/24 isn't a guarantee
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.
Hartville against the rest of the dataset
About 186 days separate Hartville's last and first frost, putting it 22,807 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 489 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44265: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hartville can differ from the 44265 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Hartville's frost date answer different questions.