Bellaire, OH 43940 Frost Dates
Bellaire, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.
Bellaire 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Bellaire's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bellaire's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bellaire against the rest of the dataset
Bellaire's growing season runs about 192 days, ranking 20,306 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 250 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 43940's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bellaire can differ from the 43940 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Bellaire's frost date answer different questions.