Salisbury, MD 21852 Frost Dates
Salisbury, MD: when does the frost end?
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
Salisbury 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 Salisbury's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Salisbury's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Salisbury against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Salisbury places 12,205 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MD, it ranks 132 of 583.
Learn more
Before leaning on 21852's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Salisbury's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Salisbury's dates instead of trusting one.