Hills and Dales, OH 44718 Frost Dates
44718, near Hills and Dales, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 184 days after the last spring frost.
Hills and Dales 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
Hills and Dales'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.
The actual range around Hills and Dales's last frost
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.
Hills and Dales against the rest of the dataset
Hills and Dales's growing season runs about 184 days, ranking 23,652 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 674 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44718: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hills and Dales can differ from the 44718 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Hills and Dales's frost date answer different questions.