Palmer Town, MA 01069 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Palmer Town, MA, ZIP 01069
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/14, about 164 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6a around Palmer Town has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Palmer Town's last frost
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Palmer Town compares
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Palmer Town places 30,873 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 433 of 712.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Palmer Town's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Palmer Town's dates instead of trusting one.