Morningside, MD 20697 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Morningside, MD, ZIP 20697
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/29, about 203 frost-free days later.
Morningside 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Morningside has about 9 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
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/24 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Morningside compares
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Morningside places 16,956 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MD, it ranks 384 of 583.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Morningside's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Morningside's dates instead of trusting one.