Canton, OH 44705 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Canton, OH, ZIP 44705
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/24, roughly 239 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/26, about 184 frost-free days later.
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 Canton, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Canton has about 8 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Canton compares
At roughly 184 frost-free days, Canton places 23,411 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 598 of 1,383.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Canton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Canton's dates instead of trusting one.