New Waterford, OH 44445 Frost Dates
New Waterford, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts New Waterford 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 9 weeks until New Waterford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around New Waterford's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Waterford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 186 frost-free days, New Waterford places 22,879 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 505 of 1,383.
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Before leaning on 44445's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in New Waterford can differ from the 44445 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and New Waterford's frost date answer different questions.