Palmer Town, MA 01057 Frost Dates
01057, near Palmer Town, MA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Palmer Town in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Palmer Town's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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
04/28 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 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Palmer Town against the rest of the dataset
Palmer Town's growing season runs about 169 days, ranking 29,356 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MA, it ranks 365 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 01057: the frost range, on how to read the range around Palmer Town's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Palmer Town can differ from the 01057 normal.