Belpre, OH 26181 Frost Dates
26181, near Belpre, OH: the frost window
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Belpre in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Belpre's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Belpre's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Belpre against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Belpre places 18,655 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 102 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 26181: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Belpre's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Belpre's dates instead of trusting one.