Wilkesville, OH 45695 Frost Dates
Wilkesville, OH: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Wilkesville 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
With roughly 7 weeks until Wilkesville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wilkesville's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wilkesville against the rest of the dataset
Wilkesville's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 30,235 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,366 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45695's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wilkesville can differ from the 45695 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Wilkesville's frost date answer different questions.