West Alexandria, OH 45381 Frost Dates
West Alexandria, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/25, roughly 240 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 176 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 West Alexandria, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until West Alexandria's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around West Alexandria's last frost
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Alexandria against the rest of the dataset
About 176 days separate West Alexandria's last and first frost, putting it 26,522 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 983 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45381's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in West Alexandria can differ from the 45381 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and West Alexandria's frost date answer different questions.