Nelsonville, OH 45764 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Nelsonville, OH, ZIP 45764
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 167 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Nelsonville in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Nelsonville has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Nelsonville's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/17 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Nelsonville compares
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Nelsonville places 29,957 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,263 of 1,383.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Nelsonville can differ from the 45764 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Nelsonville's frost date answer different questions.