Pleasant Plain, OH 45162 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Pleasant Plain, OH?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/22, about 185 frost-free days later.
Pleasant Plain 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Pleasant Plain before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Pleasant Plain's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pleasant Plain compares
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Pleasant Plain places 23,350 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 592 of 1,383.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Pleasant Plain's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Pleasant Plain's dates instead of trusting one.