West Springfield Town, MA 01107 Frost Dates
01107, near West Springfield Town, MA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/03, about 248 days from today. 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 West Springfield Town 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
West Springfield Town's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around West Springfield Town's last frost
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.
West Springfield Town against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 158 frost-free days, West Springfield Town places 32,909 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 575 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 01107: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and West Springfield Town's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around West Springfield Town's dates instead of trusting one.