Georgetown, DE 19969 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Georgetown, DE, ZIP 19969
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/06, about 217 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Georgetown, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Georgetown has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Georgetown compares
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Georgetown places 13,454 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within DE, it ranks 8 of 96.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Georgetown's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Georgetown can differ from the 19969 normal.