Chicopee, MA 01101 Frost Dates
Chicopee, MA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 248 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Chicopee in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Chicopee's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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.
Chicopee against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 158 frost-free days, Chicopee places 32,883 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 564 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 01101's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Chicopee can differ from the 01101 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Chicopee's frost date answer different questions.