Yellow Springs, OH 45387 Frost Dates
45387, near Yellow Springs, OH: the frost window
Around 04/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 240 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Yellow Springs in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Yellow Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yellow Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Yellow Springs's last and first frost, putting it 26,905 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,022 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45387: local microclimates, on what one yard in Yellow Springs can differ from the 45387 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Yellow Springs's frost date answer different questions.