Chesapeake City, MD 21915 Frost Dates
21915, near Chesapeake City, MD: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 209 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 Chesapeake City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Chesapeake City's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Chesapeake City's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chesapeake City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Chesapeake City places 15,350 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MD, it ranks 347 of 583.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 21915: local microclimates, on what one yard in Chesapeake City can differ from the 21915 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Chesapeake City's frost date answer different questions.