Butler, OH 44822 Frost Dates
Butler, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Butler in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Butler's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Butler against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Butler places 30,093 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,305 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44822's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Butler's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Butler can differ from the 44822 normal.