Norwood, OH 45208 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Norwood, OH, ZIP 45208
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 190 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Norwood, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Norwood has about 8 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 Norwood's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Norwood compares
Norwood's growing season runs about 190 days, ranking 21,057 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 311 of 1,383.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Norwood can differ from the 45208 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Norwood's frost date answer different questions.