Yankee Lake, OH 44403 Frost Dates
44403, near Yankee Lake, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Yankee Lake 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Yankee Lake'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 Yankee Lake's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yankee Lake against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Yankee Lake's last and first frost, putting it 30,245 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,369 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44403: local microclimates, on what one yard in Yankee Lake can differ from the 44403 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Yankee Lake's frost date answer different questions.