Grandview Heights, OH 43216 Frost Dates
43216, near Grandview Heights, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Grandview Heights sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Grandview Heights's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Grandview Heights's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Grandview Heights against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Grandview Heights places 23,098 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 542 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43216: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Grandview Heights's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Grandview Heights's dates instead of trusting one.