New Washington, OH 44854 Frost Dates
44854, near New Washington, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for New Washington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
New Washington's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 New Washington's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Washington against the rest of the dataset
New Washington's growing season runs about 190 days, ranking 21,242 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 336 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44854: the frost range, on how to read the range around New Washington's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in New Washington can differ from the 44854 normal.