Windham, OH 44288 Frost Dates
Windham, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Windham, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Windham's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Windham's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Windham against the rest of the dataset
Windham's growing season runs about 170 days, ranking 29,072 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,168 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44288's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Windham's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Windham can differ from the 44288 normal.