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Bratenahl, OH 44192 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Bratenahl, OH, ZIP 44192

Zone 7a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 217 frost-free days later.

Bratenahl sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 7a around Bratenahl has about 11 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.

The actual range around Bratenahl's last frost

04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/29 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Bratenahl compares

At roughly 217 frost-free days, Bratenahl places 13,538 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 34 of 1,383.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Bratenahl's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Bratenahl can differ from the 44192 normal.