Beaver, OH 45613 Frost Dates
45613, near Beaver, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/17, about 232 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 191 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 Beaver, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Beaver's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Beaver against the rest of the dataset
About 191 days separate Beaver's last and first frost, putting it 20,897 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OH, it ranks 298 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45613: local microclimates, on what one yard in Beaver can differ from the 45613 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Beaver's frost date answer different questions.