Shaker Heights, OH 44120 Frost Dates
Shaker Heights, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Shaker Heights in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 11 weeks until Shaker Heights's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Shaker Heights's last frost
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.
Shaker Heights against the rest of the dataset
About 217 days separate Shaker Heights's last and first frost, putting it 13,419 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 10 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44120's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Shaker Heights's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Shaker Heights can differ from the 44120 normal.