Beverly, MA 01984 Frost Dates
01984, near Beverly, MA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/04, about 249 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 160 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 Beverly, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Beverly'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 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.
Beverly against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Beverly places 32,219 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 515 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 01984: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Beverly's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Beverly's dates instead of trusting one.