Minerva, OH 44657 Frost Dates
44657, near Minerva, 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.
Minerva sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Minerva'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.
The actual range around Minerva'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.
Minerva against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 184 frost-free days, Minerva places 23,528 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 637 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44657: the frost range, on how to read the range around Minerva's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Minerva can differ from the 44657 normal.