Bridgewater Town, MA 02327 Frost Dates
02327, near Bridgewater Town, MA: the frost window
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.
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
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.
The actual range around Bridgewater Town's last frost
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
Bridgewater Town's growing season runs about 198 days, ranking 18,300 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MA, it ranks 116 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02327: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bridgewater Town can differ from the 02327 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Bridgewater Town's frost date answer different questions.