West Carrollton, OH 45449 Frost Dates
West Carrollton, OH: when does the frost end?
Around 04/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 232 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
West Carrollton 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
With roughly 8 weeks until West Carrollton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
West Carrollton against the rest of the dataset
West Carrollton's growing season runs about 192 days, ranking 20,213 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 217 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45449's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in West Carrollton can differ from the 45449 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and West Carrollton's frost date answer different questions.