Winchester, OH 45697 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Winchester, OH, ZIP 45697
Around 04/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 233 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/30, about 195 frost-free days later.
Winchester 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Winchester 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/03 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Winchester compares
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Winchester places 19,307 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 139 of 1,383.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Winchester can differ from the 45697 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Winchester's frost date answer different questions.