Medina, OH 44282 Frost Dates
44282, near Medina, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Medina's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Medina's last frost
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.
Medina against the rest of the dataset
Medina's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 29,881 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,228 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44282: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Medina's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Medina's dates instead of trusting one.