Crown City, OH 45696 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Crown City, OH, ZIP 45696
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/15, about 167 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Crown City 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 Crown City has about 7 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 Crown City's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Crown City compares
About 167 days separate Crown City's last and first frost, putting it 30,150 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,328 of 1,383.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Crown City can differ from the 45696 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Crown City's frost date answer different questions.