Moraine, OH 45448 Frost Dates
45448, near Moraine, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Moraine 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
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
About 192 days separate Moraine's last and first frost, putting it 20,269 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 234 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45448: the frost range, on how to read the range around Moraine's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Moraine can differ from the 45448 normal.