Scott, OH 45886 Frost Dates
45886, near Scott, OH: the frost window
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 174 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Scott, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Scott'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 Scott's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scott against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 174 frost-free days, Scott places 27,634 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,094 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45886: local microclimates, on what one yard in Scott can differ from the 45886 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Scott's frost date answer different questions.