Wilmot, OH 44624 Frost Dates
44624, near Wilmot, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wilmot 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
Wilmot's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wilmot against the rest of the dataset
Wilmot's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 30,187 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,343 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44624: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wilmot can differ from the 44624 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Wilmot's frost date answer different questions.