Morningside, MD 20748 Frost Dates
Morningside, MD: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/03, roughly 218 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Morningside 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Morningside's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Morningside's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Morningside against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Morningside places 13,549 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MD, it ranks 312 of 583.
Learn more
Before leaning on 20748's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Morningside can differ from the 20748 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Morningside's frost date answer different questions.