Fairfield, OH 45014 Frost Dates
Fairfield, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
Fairfield sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Fairfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fairfield's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fairfield against the rest of the dataset
About 186 days separate Fairfield's last and first frost, putting it 22,709 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 454 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45014's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Fairfield's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Fairfield can differ from the 45014 normal.