Cottage City, MD 20722 Frost Dates
20722, near Cottage City, MD: the frost window
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cottage City in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cottage City's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cottage City against the rest of the dataset
About 224 days separate Cottage City's last and first frost, putting it 11,916 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MD, it ranks 129 of 583.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 20722: the frost range, on how to read the range around Cottage City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Cottage City can differ from the 20722 normal.