Moraine, OH 45475 Frost Dates
45475, near Moraine, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Moraine in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Moraine places 20,271 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 236 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45475: 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 45475 normal.