Broadview Heights, OH 44147 Frost Dates
Broadview Heights, OH: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/20, roughly 235 days out. 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 Broadview Heights in Zone 6a (-10 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 Broadview 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 Broadview Heights's last frost
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.
Broadview Heights against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Broadview Heights's last and first frost, putting it 18,355 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 92 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 44147's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Broadview Heights can differ from the 44147 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Broadview Heights's frost date answer different questions.