Bethel, OH 45106 Frost Dates
45106, near Bethel, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Bethel, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bethel's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Bethel'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 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bethel against the rest of the dataset
Bethel's growing season runs about 196 days, ranking 18,980 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OH, it ranks 116 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45106: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bethel's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bethel can differ from the 45106 normal.