Oakwood, OH 45410 Frost Dates
45410, near Oakwood, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Oakwood sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Oakwood's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Oakwood's last frost
04/17 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 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Oakwood against the rest of the dataset
Oakwood's growing season runs about 192 days, ranking 20,226 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 219 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45410: the frost range, on how to read the range around Oakwood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Oakwood can differ from the 45410 normal.