Buchtel, OH 45716 Frost Dates
45716, near Buchtel, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Buchtel in Zone 6a (-10 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
Buchtel's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Buchtel'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.
Buchtel against the rest of the dataset
Buchtel's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 30,140 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,324 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45716: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Buchtel's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Buchtel's dates instead of trusting one.