Brook Park, OH 44142 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Brook Park, OH, ZIP 44142
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 198 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Brook Park, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Brook Park has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Brook Park compares
About 198 days separate Brook Park's last and first frost, putting it 18,357 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 94 of 1,383.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Brook Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Brook Park can differ from the 44142 normal.