West Elkton, OH 45064 Frost Dates
West Elkton, OH: when does the frost end?
Around 04/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 240 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
West Elkton sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 West Elkton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around West Elkton's last frost
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Elkton against the rest of the dataset
About 176 days separate West Elkton's last and first frost, putting it 26,656 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 999 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45064's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around West Elkton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in West Elkton can differ from the 45064 normal.