Revere, MA 01908 Frost Dates
01908, near Revere, MA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/25, about 240 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
Revere sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 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
Revere's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Revere against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 176 frost-free days, Revere places 26,350 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 297 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 01908: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Revere's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Revere's dates instead of trusting one.