North College Hill, OH 45224 Frost Dates
North College Hill, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
North College Hill 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
With roughly 9 weeks until North College Hill's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North College Hill against the rest of the dataset
North College Hill's growing season runs about 193 days, ranking 19,781 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 173 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45224's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around North College Hill's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in North College Hill can differ from the 45224 normal.