Princess Anne, MD 21867 Frost Dates
Princess Anne, MD: when does the frost end?
Around 04/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 218 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Princess Anne in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 10 weeks until Princess Anne's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Princess Anne's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Princess Anne against the rest of the dataset
About 217 days separate Princess Anne's last and first frost, putting it 13,479 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MD, it ranks 296 of 583.
Learn more
Before leaning on 21867's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Princess Anne's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Princess Anne can differ from the 21867 normal.