Newton Falls, OH 44444 Frost Dates
44444, near Newton Falls, 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 10/20, roughly 170 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 Newton Falls, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Newton Falls'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 Newton Falls'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.
Newton Falls against the rest of the dataset
About 170 days separate Newton Falls's last and first frost, putting it 28,990 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,156 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44444: local microclimates, on what one yard in Newton Falls can differ from the 44444 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Newton Falls's frost date answer different questions.