New Middletown, OH 44442 Frost Dates
New Middletown, OH: when does the frost end?
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.
New Middletown 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
With roughly 7 weeks until New Middletown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
New Middletown against the rest of the dataset
New Middletown's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 30,051 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,286 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44442's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and New Middletown's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around New Middletown's dates instead of trusting one.