Grandview Heights, OH 43268 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Grandview Heights, OH, ZIP 43268
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/24, about 185 frost-free days later.
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 Grandview Heights, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Grandview Heights has about 8 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Grandview Heights's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Grandview Heights compares
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Grandview Heights places 23,106 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 550 of 1,383.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Grandview Heights's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Grandview Heights's dates instead of trusting one.