Middle Point, OH 45863 Frost Dates
45863, near Middle Point, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/27, about 242 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Middle Point 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
Middle Point'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.
The actual range around Middle Point's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Middle Point against the rest of the dataset
Middle Point's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 27,157 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,060 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45863: local microclimates, on what one yard in Middle Point can differ from the 45863 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Middle Point's frost date answer different questions.