Cleveland, OH 44114 Frost Dates
44114, near Cleveland, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cleveland in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cleveland's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/08 isn't a guarantee
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.
Cleveland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Cleveland places 13,365 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 4 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44114: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cleveland can differ from the 44114 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Cleveland's frost date answer different questions.