Cheviot, OH 45247 Frost Dates
Cheviot, OH: when does the frost end?
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cheviot 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 9 weeks until Cheviot's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Cheviot against the rest of the dataset
About 193 days separate Cheviot's last and first frost, putting it 19,790 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 177 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45247's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cheviot's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cheviot can differ from the 45247 normal.