Agawam Town, MA 01106 Frost Dates
Agawam Town, MA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.
Agawam Town sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 7 weeks until Agawam Town's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/21 isn't a guarantee
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Agawam Town against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 177 frost-free days, Agawam Town places 26,020 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 282 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 01106's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Agawam Town's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Agawam Town's dates instead of trusting one.