St. Bernard, OH 45999 Frost Dates
45999, near St. Bernard, OH: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/16, roughly 231 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
St. Bernard'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
04/16 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.
St. Bernard against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 193 frost-free days, St. Bernard places 19,914 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OH, it ranks 201 of 1,383.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 45999: the frost range, on how to read the range around St. Bernard's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in St. Bernard can differ from the 45999 normal.