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Moraine, OH 45413 Frost Dates

45413, near Moraine, OH: the frost window

Zone 6b

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.

Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Moraine, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Moraine'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 Moraine'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.

Moraine against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 192 frost-free days, Moraine places 20,262 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 227 of 1,383.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 45413: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Moraine's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Moraine's dates instead of trusting one.