East Canton, OH 44730 Frost Dates
Frost dates for East Canton, OH, ZIP 44730
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts East 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around East 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 East Canton compares
At roughly 184 frost-free days, East Canton places 23,580 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 648 of 1,383.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and East Canton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around East Canton's dates instead of trusting one.