Bowling Green, OH 43414 Frost Dates
43414, near Bowling Green, OH: the frost window
Around 04/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 239 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bowling Green 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
Bowling Green'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 Bowling Green's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bowling Green against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 179 frost-free days, Bowling Green places 25,161 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 801 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43414: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bowling Green can differ from the 43414 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Bowling Green's frost date answer different questions.