North East, MD 21901 Frost Dates
21901, near North East, MD: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/03, roughly 218 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 217 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 North East, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
North East'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North East against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 217 frost-free days, North East places 13,470 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MD, it ranks 292 of 583.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 21901: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and North East's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around North East's dates instead of trusting one.