Belle Valley, OH 43711 Frost Dates
43711, near Belle Valley, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Belle Valley 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
Belle Valley's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Belle Valley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Belle Valley places 30,207 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,355 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 43711: local microclimates, on what one yard in Belle Valley can differ from the 43711 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Belle Valley's frost date answer different questions.