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Woodsboro, MD 21757 Frost Dates

Woodsboro, MD: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

Around 04/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 237 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Woodsboro in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 8 weeks until Woodsboro's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Woodsboro's last frost

04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Woodsboro against the rest of the dataset

About 179 days separate Woodsboro's last and first frost, putting it 25,394 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MD, it ranks 551 of 583.

Learn more

Before leaning on 21757's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Woodsboro's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Woodsboro's dates instead of trusting one.