Bloomville, OH 44845 Frost Dates
44845, near Bloomville, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/29, about 244 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Bloomville 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
Bloomville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bloomville against the rest of the dataset
About 171 days separate Bloomville's last and first frost, putting it 28,747 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,141 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44845: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Bloomville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bloomville's dates instead of trusting one.