Lordstown, OH 44451 Frost Dates
Lordstown, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lordstown 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 Lordstown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lordstown'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.
Lordstown against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Lordstown's last and first frost, putting it 29,984 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,267 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44451's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lordstown can differ from the 44451 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Lordstown's frost date answer different questions.