Queenstown, MD 21619 Frost Dates
21619, near Queenstown, MD: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Queenstown sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Queenstown's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Queenstown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Queenstown places 10,886 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MD, it ranks 99 of 583.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 21619: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Queenstown's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Queenstown's dates instead of trusting one.