Palmer Town, MA 01082 Frost Dates
Palmer Town, MA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Palmer Town, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Palmer Town's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 05/03 isn't a guarantee
05/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Palmer Town against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Palmer Town places 30,876 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 436 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 01082's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Palmer Town's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Palmer Town can differ from the 01082 normal.