Amesville, OH 45777 Frost Dates
45777, near Amesville, 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 Amesville 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
Amesville'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.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
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.
Amesville against the rest of the dataset
Amesville's growing season runs about 167 days, ranking 30,217 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,363 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45777: the frost range, on how to read the range around Amesville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Amesville can differ from the 45777 normal.