McDonald, OH 44437 Frost Dates
McDonald, OH: when does the frost end?
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. 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 McDonald, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until McDonald's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around McDonald'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.
McDonald against the rest of the dataset
McDonald's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 29,989 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,269 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44437's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around McDonald's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in McDonald can differ from the 44437 normal.