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Orrville, OH 44667 Frost Dates

44667, near Orrville, OH: the frost window

Zone 6a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Orrville 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

Orrville'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.

Why 04/29 isn't a guarantee

04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Orrville against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 167 frost-free days, Orrville places 29,924 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,241 of 1,383.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 44667: the frost range, on how to read the range around Orrville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Orrville can differ from the 44667 normal.