Sardinia, OH 45171 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Sardinia, OH, ZIP 45171
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/30, about 200 frost-free days later.
Sardinia 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
Zone 6b around Sardinia has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Sardinia's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sardinia compares
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Sardinia places 17,854 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 70 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Sardinia's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Sardinia can differ from the 45171 normal.