Middleport, OH 45760 Frost Dates
45760, near Middleport, OH: the frost window
Around 04/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 243 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 173 days after the last spring frost.
Middleport 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
Middleport'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 Middleport's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Middleport against the rest of the dataset
About 173 days separate Middleport's last and first frost, putting it 27,931 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 1,096 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45760: local microclimates, on what one yard in Middleport can differ from the 45760 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Middleport's frost date answer different questions.