Orangeville, OH 44404 Frost Dates
Orangeville, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 167 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 Orangeville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Orangeville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Orangeville'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.
Orangeville against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Orangeville's last and first frost, putting it 30,212 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,358 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44404's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Orangeville can differ from the 44404 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Orangeville's frost date answer different questions.