Fairlawn, OH 44321 Frost Dates
44321, near Fairlawn, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fairlawn in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Fairlawn'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.
Fairlawn against the rest of the dataset
About 186 days separate Fairlawn's last and first frost, putting it 22,762 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 477 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44321: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Fairlawn's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fairlawn's dates instead of trusting one.