Palmer Town, MA 01585 Frost Dates
01585, near Palmer Town, MA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Palmer Town sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Palmer Town's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/28 isn't a guarantee
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 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.
Palmer Town against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Palmer Town places 29,358 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 367 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 01585: the frost range, on how to read the range around Palmer Town's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Palmer Town can differ from the 01585 normal.