Massillon, OH 44646 Frost Dates
Massillon, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Massillon, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Massillon's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Massillon's last frost
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.
Massillon against the rest of the dataset
Massillon's growing season runs about 184 days, ranking 23,428 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 607 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44646's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Massillon can differ from the 44646 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Massillon's frost date answer different questions.