Brookeville, MD 20862 Frost Dates
Brookeville, MD: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.
Brookeville 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 10 weeks until Brookeville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Brookeville's last frost
04/01 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.
Brookeville against the rest of the dataset
Brookeville's growing season runs about 219 days, ranking 13,117 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MD, it ranks 240 of 583.
Learn more
Before leaning on 20862's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Brookeville can differ from the 20862 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Brookeville's frost date answer different questions.