Pocomoke City, MD 21851 Frost Dates
Pocomoke City, MD: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
Pocomoke City 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 11 weeks until Pocomoke City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pocomoke City against the rest of the dataset
About 225 days separate Pocomoke City's last and first frost, putting it 11,402 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MD, it ranks 109 of 583.
Learn more
Before leaning on 21851's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pocomoke City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pocomoke City can differ from the 21851 normal.