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St. Henry, OH 45883 Frost Dates

45883, near St. Henry, OH: the frost window

Zone 6a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.

St. Henry 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

St. Henry'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 St. Henry'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.

St. Henry against the rest of the dataset

St. Henry's growing season runs about 175 days, ranking 26,952 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 1,028 of 1,383.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 45883: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and St. Henry's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around St. Henry's dates instead of trusting one.