Bloomingdale, OH 43910 Frost Dates
Bloomingdale, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bloomingdale 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Bloomingdale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bloomingdale against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Bloomingdale places 27,281 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 1,087 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43910's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bloomingdale's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bloomingdale can differ from the 43910 normal.