Port Tobacco Village, MD 20604 Frost Dates
Port Tobacco Village, MD: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/17, roughly 232 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Port Tobacco Village 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 Port Tobacco Village's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/17 isn't a guarantee
04/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Port Tobacco Village against the rest of the dataset
About 195 days separate Port Tobacco Village's last and first frost, putting it 19,401 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MD, it ranks 520 of 583.
Learn more
Before leaning on 20604's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Port Tobacco Village's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Port Tobacco Village can differ from the 20604 normal.