Arlington, OH 45814 Frost Dates
45814, near Arlington, OH: the frost window
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Arlington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Arlington's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Arlington's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arlington against the rest of the dataset
Arlington's growing season runs about 185 days, ranking 23,217 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 567 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45814: the frost range, on how to read the range around Arlington's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Arlington can differ from the 45814 normal.