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Bexley, OH 43219 Frost Dates

Bexley, OH: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Bexley, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 9 weeks until Bexley's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

Why 04/18 isn't a guarantee

04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Bexley against the rest of the dataset

Bexley's growing season runs about 191 days, ranking 20,732 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 288 of 1,383.

Learn more

Before leaning on 43219's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bexley's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bexley can differ from the 43219 normal.