Mineral City, OH 44678 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Mineral City, OH, ZIP 44678
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/15, about 167 frost-free days later.
Mineral City 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Mineral City has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Mineral City's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/17 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Mineral City compares
About 167 days separate Mineral City's last and first frost, putting it 30,133 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,323 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Mineral City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Mineral City can differ from the 44678 normal.