Centerville, OH 45459 Frost Dates
45459, near Centerville, OH: the frost window
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.
Centerville 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
Centerville'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 Centerville'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.
Centerville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Centerville places 20,186 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 213 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45459: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Centerville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Centerville's dates instead of trusting one.