Bratenahl, OH 44195 Frost Dates
44195, near Bratenahl, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/08, roughly 223 days out. 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 Bratenahl 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
Bratenahl's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Bratenahl'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.
Bratenahl against the rest of the dataset
Bratenahl's growing season runs about 217 days, ranking 13,541 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 37 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 44195: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bratenahl's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bratenahl can differ from the 44195 normal.