Willards, MD 21872 Frost Dates
Willards, MD: when does the frost end?
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Willards in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 9 weeks until Willards's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Willards's last frost
04/07 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.
Willards against the rest of the dataset
Willards's growing season runs about 209 days, ranking 15,325 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MD, it ranks 346 of 583.
Learn more
Before leaning on 21872's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Willards's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Willards can differ from the 21872 normal.