Harrod, OH 45850 Frost Dates
45850, near Harrod, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 181 days after the last spring frost.
Harrod 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
Harrod'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.
Why 04/22 isn't a guarantee
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 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.
Harrod against the rest of the dataset
Harrod's growing season runs about 181 days, ranking 24,697 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 779 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45850: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Harrod's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Harrod's dates instead of trusting one.