Bridgewater Town, MA 02040 Frost Dates
Bridgewater Town, MA: when does the frost end?
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Bridgewater Town, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Bridgewater Town'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
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bridgewater Town against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Bridgewater Town's last and first frost, putting it 18,292 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 108 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 02040's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bridgewater Town's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bridgewater Town's dates instead of trusting one.