Canfield, OH 44501 Frost Dates
Canfield, 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.
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 Canfield, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Canfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Canfield against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Canfield places 29,931 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,246 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44501's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Canfield's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Canfield can differ from the 44501 normal.