Little Creek, DE 19902 Frost Dates
19902, near Little Creek, DE: the frost window
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Little Creek in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Little Creek's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Little Creek against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 214 frost-free days, Little Creek places 14,376 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within DE, it ranks 27 of 96.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19902: the frost range, on how to read the range around Little Creek's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Little Creek can differ from the 19902 normal.