Minerva, OH 44607 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Minerva, OH, ZIP 44607
Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 186 frost-free days later.
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 Minerva, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Minerva has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Minerva's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Minerva compares
At roughly 186 frost-free days, Minerva places 22,805 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 487 of 1,383.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Minerva's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Minerva's dates instead of trusting one.