Grandview Heights, OH 43272 Frost Dates
Grandview Heights, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 185 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 Grandview Heights, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Grandview Heights's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
About 185 days separate Grandview Heights's last and first frost, putting it 23,109 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 553 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43272's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Grandview Heights can differ from the 43272 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Grandview Heights's frost date answer different questions.