Canton, OH 44704 Frost Dates
44704, near Canton, OH: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Canton in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Canton'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.
Canton against the rest of the dataset
About 184 days separate Canton's last and first frost, putting it 23,410 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 597 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44704: local microclimates, on what one yard in Canton can differ from the 44704 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Canton's frost date answer different questions.