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Belmont, OH 43759 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Belmont, OH, ZIP 43759

Zone 6b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/29, about 192 frost-free days later.

Belmont sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 6b around Belmont 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 Belmont compares

At roughly 192 frost-free days, Belmont places 20,535 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 269 of 1,383.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Belmont's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Belmont's dates instead of trusting one.