Bay Village, OH 44140 Frost Dates
Bay Village, OH: when does the frost end?
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bay Village 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Bay Village'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
04/20 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.
Bay Village against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Bay Village's last and first frost, putting it 18,373 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 97 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44140's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bay Village can differ from the 44140 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bay Village's frost date answer different questions.