Bridgeville, DE 19933 Frost Dates
19933, near Bridgeville, DE: the frost window
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bridgeville 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
Bridgeville'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
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bridgeville against the rest of the dataset
Bridgeville's growing season runs about 200 days, ranking 17,795 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within DE, it ranks 90 of 96.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 19933: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bridgeville can differ from the 19933 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Bridgeville's frost date answer different questions.