Hartville, OH 44632 Frost Dates
44632, near Hartville, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.
Hartville sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hartville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hartville against the rest of the dataset
Hartville's growing season runs about 184 days, ranking 23,533 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 639 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44632: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hartville can differ from the 44632 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Hartville's frost date answer different questions.