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Cedarville, OH 45314 Frost Dates

Cedarville, OH: when does the frost end?

Zone 6a

Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Cedarville, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 8 weeks until Cedarville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Cedarville's last frost

04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Cedarville against the rest of the dataset

Cedarville's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 22,014 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 385 of 1,383.

Learn more

Before leaning on 45314's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cedarville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cedarville can differ from the 45314 normal.