Bridgewater Town, MA 02325 Frost Dates
Bridgewater Town, MA: when does the frost end?
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 161 days after the last spring frost.
Bridgewater Town sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 6 weeks until Bridgewater Town's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bridgewater Town's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bridgewater Town against the rest of the dataset
About 161 days separate Bridgewater Town's last and first frost, putting it 31,967 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 491 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 02325's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b 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.