Akron, OH 44304 Frost Dates
Akron, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
Akron 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 9 weeks until Akron's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Akron's last frost
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.
Akron against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 186 frost-free days, Akron places 22,658 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 437 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44304's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Akron can differ from the 44304 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Akron's frost date answer different questions.