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Quincy, OH 45353 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Quincy, OH, ZIP 45353

Zone 6a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/20, about 175 frost-free days later.

Quincy sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 6a around Quincy 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 Quincy's last frost

04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Quincy compares

At roughly 175 frost-free days, Quincy places 27,162 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,063 of 1,383.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Quincy's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Quincy's dates instead of trusting one.