Tipp City, OH 45371 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Tipp City, OH, ZIP 45371
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 194 frost-free days later.
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 Tipp City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Tipp City has about 9 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 Tipp City'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 Tipp City compares
About 194 days separate Tipp City's last and first frost, putting it 19,460 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 162 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Tipp City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Tipp City can differ from the 45371 normal.