Canfield, OH 44406 Frost Dates
44406, near Canfield, OH: the frost window
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 Canfield, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Canfield'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 Canfield'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.
Canfield against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Canfield places 29,928 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,243 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44406: the frost range, on how to read the range around Canfield's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Canfield can differ from the 44406 normal.