Benton Ridge, OH 45816 Frost Dates
Benton Ridge, OH: when does the frost end?
Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 185 days after the last spring frost.
Benton Ridge sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Benton Ridge's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Benton Ridge's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Benton Ridge against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 185 frost-free days, Benton Ridge places 23,325 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 588 of 1,383.
Learn more
Before leaning on 45816's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Benton Ridge can differ from the 45816 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Benton Ridge's frost date answer different questions.