Ellendale, DE 19941 Frost Dates
Ellendale, DE: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Ellendale sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 9 weeks until Ellendale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ellendale's last frost
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.
Ellendale against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Ellendale's last and first frost, putting it 17,874 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within DE, it ranks 93 of 96.
Learn more
Before leaning on 19941's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Ellendale's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Ellendale can differ from the 19941 normal.