Dunkirk, OH 45836 Frost Dates
45836, near Dunkirk, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Dunkirk sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Dunkirk'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 Dunkirk's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dunkirk against the rest of the dataset
About 182 days separate Dunkirk's last and first frost, putting it 24,246 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 737 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45836: local microclimates, on what one yard in Dunkirk can differ from the 45836 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Dunkirk's frost date answer different questions.