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Coalton, OH 45672 Frost Dates

Coalton, OH: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 184 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 Coalton, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 8 weeks until Coalton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

Why 04/20 isn't a guarantee

04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Coalton against the rest of the dataset

About 184 days separate Coalton's last and first frost, putting it 23,629 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 666 of 1,383.

Learn more

Before leaning on 45672's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Coalton can differ from the 45672 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Coalton's frost date answer different questions.