East Cleveland, OH 44112 Frost Dates
East Cleveland, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
East Cleveland 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 11 weeks until East Cleveland'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
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
East Cleveland against the rest of the dataset
About 217 days separate East Cleveland's last and first frost, putting it 13,433 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 19 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44112's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and East Cleveland's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around East Cleveland's dates instead of trusting one.