Willard, OH 44890 Frost Dates
44890, near Willard, OH: the frost window
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.
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 Willard, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Willard's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/26 isn't a guarantee
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.
Willard against the rest of the dataset
About 177 days separate Willard's last and first frost, putting it 26,100 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 922 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44890: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Willard's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Willard's dates instead of trusting one.