Lakewood, OH 44107 Frost Dates
44107, near Lakewood, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/20, about 235 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Lakewood sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Lakewood's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Lakewood's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lakewood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 198 frost-free days, Lakewood places 18,274 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 78 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44107: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lakewood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lakewood can differ from the 44107 normal.