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Belmont, OH 43985 Frost Dates

Belmont, OH: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 192 days after the last spring frost.

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 Belmont, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 9 weeks until Belmont's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Belmont'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.

Belmont against the rest of the dataset

Belmont's growing season runs about 192 days, ranking 20,536 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 270 of 1,383.

Learn more

Before leaning on 43985's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Belmont's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Belmont can differ from the 43985 normal.