Chauncey, OH 45719 Frost Dates
Chauncey, OH: when does the frost end?
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.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Chauncey, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Chauncey's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Chauncey'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.
Chauncey against the rest of the dataset
Chauncey's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 30,090 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,302 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45719's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Chauncey can differ from the 45719 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Chauncey's frost date answer different questions.