East New Market, MD 21835 Frost Dates
21835, near East New Market, MD: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for East New Market, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
East New Market's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 East New Market's last frost
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
East New Market against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, East New Market places 15,391 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MD, it ranks 352 of 583.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 21835: local microclimates, on what one yard in East New Market can differ from the 21835 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and East New Market's frost date answer different questions.