Harveysburg, OH 45032 Frost Dates
45032, near Harveysburg, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Harveysburg 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
Harveysburg'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Harveysburg against the rest of the dataset
About 188 days separate Harveysburg's last and first frost, putting it 22,155 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 405 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45032: the frost range, on how to read the range around Harveysburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Harveysburg can differ from the 45032 normal.