Kitzmiller, MD 26717 Frost Dates
Kitzmiller, MD: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Kitzmiller sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
With roughly 7 weeks until Kitzmiller's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kitzmiller against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Kitzmiller places 30,185 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MD, it ranks 578 of 583.
Learn more
Before leaning on 26717's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Kitzmiller's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Kitzmiller can differ from the 26717 normal.