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Canfield, OH 44422 Frost Dates

Canfield, OH: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

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.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Canfield in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 7 weeks until Canfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

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

About 167 days separate Canfield's last and first frost, putting it 29,930 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,245 of 1,383.

Learn more

Before leaning on 44422's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Canfield can differ from the 44422 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Canfield's frost date answer different questions.