Meyers Lake, OH 44708 Frost Dates
44708, near Meyers Lake, 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.
Meyers Lake 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Meyers Lake'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.
Why 04/24 isn't a guarantee
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.
Meyers Lake against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 184 frost-free days, Meyers Lake places 23,612 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 661 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44708: local microclimates, on what one yard in Meyers Lake can differ from the 44708 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Meyers Lake's frost date answer different questions.