Berea, OH 44017 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Berea, OH?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 198 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 Berea, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Berea before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Berea's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Berea compares
Berea's growing season runs about 198 days, ranking 18,358 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 95 of 1,383.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Berea can differ from the 44017 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 6b and Berea's frost date answer different questions.