Bridgewater Town, MA 02055 Frost Dates
02055, near Bridgewater Town, MA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. 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
Bridgewater Town's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/15 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 198 frost-free days, Bridgewater Town places 18,294 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 110 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02055: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bridgewater Town's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bridgewater Town can differ from the 02055 normal.