Palmer Town, MA 01037 Frost Dates
Palmer Town, MA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 257 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 141 days after the last spring frost.
Palmer Town 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 5 weeks until Palmer Town's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Palmer Town's last frost
05/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Palmer Town against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 141 frost-free days, Palmer Town places 36,884 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 703 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 01037's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Palmer Town's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Palmer Town's dates instead of trusting one.