Chicopee, MA 01138 Frost Dates
Chicopee, MA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/03, roughly 248 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Chicopee, not a forecast for this year.
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 32,887 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 568 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 01138's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Chicopee's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Chicopee can differ from the 01138 normal.