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St. Bernard, OH 45277 Frost Dates

When can you plant in St. Bernard, OH?

Zone 6b

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.

St. Bernard 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

About 9 weeks of growing season left in St. Bernard before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around St. Bernard'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 St. Bernard compares

At roughly 193 frost-free days, St. Bernard places 19,911 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 198 of 1,383.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around St. Bernard's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in St. Bernard can differ from the 45277 normal.