Glouster, OH 45732 Frost Dates
45732, near Glouster, OH: the frost window
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. 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 Glouster in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Glouster'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 Glouster'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.
Glouster against the rest of the dataset
Glouster's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 30,046 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,285 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45732: the frost range, on how to read the range around Glouster's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Glouster can differ from the 45732 normal.