Batavia, OH 45102 Frost Dates
Batavia, OH: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/16, about 231 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Batavia in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 8 weeks until Batavia's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Batavia's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Batavia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Batavia places 21,190 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 333 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45102's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Batavia's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Batavia can differ from the 45102 normal.