Wadsworth, OH 44281 Frost Dates
Wadsworth, OH: when does the frost end?
Around 04/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 244 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Wadsworth 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Wadsworth's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wadsworth against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Wadsworth's last and first frost, putting it 29,883 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,230 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44281's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wadsworth can differ from the 44281 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Wadsworth's frost date answer different questions.