South Webster, OH 45694 Frost Dates
45694, near South Webster, 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 10/25, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts South Webster in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
South Webster'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.
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 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
South Webster against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 191 frost-free days, South Webster places 20,864 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 297 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45694: the frost range, on how to read the range around South Webster's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in South Webster can differ from the 45694 normal.