State Route 444 (SR 444) is a 8.43-mile-long (13.57 km) Ohio State Route that runs between the Dayton and Fairborn in the US state of Ohio. The whole length of the highway is listed on the National Highway System. Most of the is a urban four-lane highway and passes through both commercial and residential properties. For some of its path, SR 444 passes through the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The highway was first signed in 1959 on much of the same alignment as today. SR 444 replaced the SR 4 designation of the highway which dated back to 1927. In 1927 SR 4 replaced SR 52. The northern terminus was moved to its current location when a section of Interstate 675 (I–675) opened in 1976. In 2012 a section of the road was rerouted away from the base, using city streets in Fariborn.

SR 444 begins at an interchange on SR 4, in Greene County. The highway heads southeast as a four-lane divided highway, passing through woodland and entering Montgomery County. The road passes through Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, passing through commercial properties. The route curves northeast, having an interchange with SR 844. SR 444 turns southeast crossing a railroad track, before turning northeast again, as a two-lane highway. The highway heads northeast through Fairborn, passing residential properties, before curving due north and becoming a four-lane undivided highway. As the highway heads north it crosses the railroad track again. The route turns due west towards the base, before turning due north. SR 444 begins a concurrency with SR 235, west of downtown Fairborn. The concurrency heads northeast passes through commercial properties, before SR 235 turns due north. SR 444 continues northeast, passing through commercial properties, before becoming a two-lane highway. As a two-lane highway SR 444 passes through woodland, before having an interchange with I–675. The north terminus of SR 444 is this interchange with I–675.

The entire length of SR 444 that is included as a part of the National Highway System, a system of routes determined to be the most important for the nation's economy, mobility and defense. The highway is maintained by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) like all other state routes in the state. The department tracks the traffic volumes along all state highways as a part of its maintenance responsibilities using a metric called average annual daily traffic (AADT). This measurement is a calculation of the traffic level along a segment of roadway for any average day of the year. In 2008, ODOT figured that the lowest traffic levels were present on the section near the northern terminus, where only 2,860 vehicles used the highway daily. The peak traffic volume was 20,470 vehicles AADT along a section of SR 444 near its southern terminus.

In 1923 the route that became SR 444 was signed as SR 52. SR 52 was changed to SR 4 in 1927. SR 444 was originally signed in 1959, from its current southern terminus to Interstate 70, at the time it was U.S. Route 40. The northern terminus moved to its current position in 1976, when Interstate 675 was completed and signed along the alignment from SR 444’s current northern terminus north to I–70. On October 9, 2012, the portion of route through WPAFB was rerouted through Fairborn for security reasons.