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Hanoverton, OH 44493 Frost Dates

Hanoverton, OH: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 186 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 Hanoverton, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 9 weeks until Hanoverton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

Why 04/22 isn't a guarantee

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.

Hanoverton against the rest of the dataset

Hanoverton's growing season runs about 186 days, ranking 22,924 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 517 of 1,383.

Learn more

Before leaning on 44493's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Hanoverton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hanoverton's dates instead of trusting one.