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Greenwich, OH 44837 Frost Dates

Greenwich, OH: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.

Greenwich sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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

With roughly 8 weeks until Greenwich's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Greenwich's last frost

04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Greenwich against the rest of the dataset

Greenwich's growing season runs about 177 days, ranking 26,169 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 934 of 1,383.

Learn more

Before leaning on 44837's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Greenwich's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Greenwich's dates instead of trusting one.