Mount Cory, OH 45868 Frost Dates
Mount Cory, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/19, roughly 234 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mount Cory in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Mount Cory's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mount Cory'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.
Mount Cory against the rest of the dataset
Mount Cory's growing season runs about 185 days, ranking 23,339 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 591 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45868's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Mount Cory's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Mount Cory can differ from the 45868 normal.