Rutland, OH 45775 Frost Dates
Rutland, 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 Rutland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Rutland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Rutland'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.
Rutland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 173 frost-free days, Rutland places 28,059 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,104 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45775's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Rutland's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Rutland's dates instead of trusting one.