Agawam Town, MA 01030 Frost Dates
01030, near Agawam Town, MA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
Agawam Town sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Agawam Town's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Agawam Town against the rest of the dataset
About 158 days separate Agawam Town's last and first frost, putting it 32,912 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 578 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 01030: the frost range, on how to read the range around Agawam Town's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Agawam Town can differ from the 01030 normal.