North Fairfield, OH 44855 Frost Dates
North Fairfield, OH: when does the frost end?
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.
North Fairfield 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 North Fairfield'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
04/26 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.
North Fairfield against the rest of the dataset
About 177 days separate North Fairfield's last and first frost, putting it 26,232 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 947 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44855's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in North Fairfield can differ from the 44855 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and North Fairfield's frost date answer different questions.