Barnesville, OH 43713 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Barnesville, OH, ZIP 43713
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/29, about 192 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 Barnesville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Barnesville has about 9 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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. 05/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Barnesville compares
At roughly 192 frost-free days, Barnesville places 20,304 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 248 of 1,383.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Barnesville can differ from the 43713 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Barnesville's frost date answer different questions.