Mansfield, OH 44902 Frost Dates
Mansfield, OH: when does the frost end?
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mansfield in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Mansfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mansfield's last frost
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.
Mansfield against the rest of the dataset
Mansfield's growing season runs about 177 days, ranking 26,003 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 906 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44902's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Mansfield's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Mansfield's dates instead of trusting one.