North Fairfield, OH 44888 Frost Dates
44888, near North Fairfield, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 209 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 North Fairfield, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
North Fairfield's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/10 isn't a guarantee
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Fairfield against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, North Fairfield places 15,382 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 57 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44888: the frost range, on how to read the range around North Fairfield's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in North Fairfield can differ from the 44888 normal.