Pocomoke City, MD 23415 Frost Dates
23415, near Pocomoke City, MD: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
Pocomoke City sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Pocomoke City's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pocomoke City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 225 frost-free days, Pocomoke City places 11,403 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MD, it ranks 110 of 583.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 23415: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pocomoke City can differ from the 23415 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Pocomoke City's frost date answer different questions.