Willshire, OH 45898 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Willshire, OH?
Around 04/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 238 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 178 frost-free days later.
Willshire 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 7 weeks of growing season left in Willshire before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Willshire's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Willshire compares
At roughly 178 frost-free days, Willshire places 25,887 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 890 of 1,383.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6a and Willshire's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Willshire's dates instead of trusting one.