Cleves, OH 45002 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cleves, OH, ZIP 45002
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 193 frost-free days later.
Cleves sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 6b around Cleves has about 9 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 Cleves's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cleves compares
Cleves's growing season runs about 193 days, ranking 19,918 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 202 of 1,383.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Cleves's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Cleves's dates instead of trusting one.