Belpre, OH 45784 Frost Dates
45784, near Belpre, OH: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Belpre 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
Belpre'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Belpre against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Belpre places 18,657 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 104 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45784: local microclimates, on what one yard in Belpre can differ from the 45784 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Belpre's frost date answer different questions.