Craig Beach, OH 44401 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Craig Beach, OH, ZIP 44401
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 170 frost-free days later.
Craig Beach sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Craig Beach has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Craig Beach's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Craig Beach compares
About 170 days separate Craig Beach's last and first frost, putting it 29,112 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,178 of 1,383.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Craig Beach's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Craig Beach's dates instead of trusting one.