South Point, OH 45680 Frost Dates
Frost dates for South Point, OH, ZIP 45680
Around 04/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 227 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/30, about 200 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts South Point in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around South Point has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around South Point's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How South Point compares
At roughly 200 frost-free days, South Point places 17,787 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 68 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around South Point's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in South Point can differ from the 45680 normal.