Chauncey, OH 45780 Frost Dates
45780, near Chauncey, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 167 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 Chauncey, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Chauncey'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.
Chauncey against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Chauncey places 30,092 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,304 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45780: local microclimates, on what one yard in Chauncey can differ from the 45780 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Chauncey's frost date answer different questions.