Struthers, OH 44471 Frost Dates
Struthers, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Struthers 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 Struthers's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Struthers'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.
Struthers against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Struthers places 29,919 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,238 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44471's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Struthers's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Struthers can differ from the 44471 normal.