Craig Beach, OH 44411 Frost Dates
44411, near Craig Beach, 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 10/20, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Craig Beach's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Craig Beach's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Craig Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Craig Beach places 29,113 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,179 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44411: the frost range, on how to read the range around Craig Beach's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Craig Beach can differ from the 44411 normal.