Berkey, OH 43504 Frost Dates
43504, near Berkey, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Berkey sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Berkey'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 Berkey's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/06 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.
Berkey against the rest of the dataset
Berkey's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 22,191 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 410 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43504: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Berkey's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Berkey's dates instead of trusting one.