Amesville, OH 45724 Frost Dates
45724, near Amesville, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/14, roughly 229 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
Amesville 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
Amesville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Amesville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Amesville places 18,842 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 112 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45724: the frost range, on how to read the range around Amesville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Amesville can differ from the 45724 normal.