Newtown, OH 45244 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Newtown, OH, ZIP 45244
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/25, about 190 frost-free days later.
Newtown 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 Newtown 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 Newtown'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 Newtown compares
About 190 days separate Newtown's last and first frost, putting it 21,174 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 328 of 1,383.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Newtown's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Newtown's dates instead of trusting one.