Ocean View, DE 19967 Frost Dates
Ocean View, DE: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/07, roughly 222 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Ocean View 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 Ocean View's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ocean View against the rest of the dataset
About 209 days separate Ocean View's last and first frost, putting it 15,251 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within DE, it ranks 48 of 96.
Learn more
Before leaning on 19967's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Ocean View's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Ocean View can differ from the 19967 normal.