Bridgewater Town, MA 02060 Frost Dates
02060, near Bridgewater Town, MA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bridgewater Town in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
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.
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 18,296 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 112 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02060: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bridgewater Town can differ from the 02060 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Bridgewater Town's frost date answer different questions.