Burkittsville, MD 21715 Frost Dates
21715, near Burkittsville, MD: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/26, about 241 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Burkittsville sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Burkittsville's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Burkittsville's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Burkittsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 175 frost-free days, Burkittsville places 27,274 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MD, it ranks 563 of 583.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 21715: local microclimates, on what one yard in Burkittsville can differ from the 21715 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Burkittsville's frost date answer different questions.