Pomeroy, OH 45769 Frost Dates
Pomeroy, OH: when does the frost end?
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.
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 Pomeroy, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Pomeroy's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Pomeroy against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Pomeroy places 27,962 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,097 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45769's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pomeroy's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pomeroy can differ from the 45769 normal.