Bridgewater Town, MA 02332 Frost Dates
Bridgewater Town, MA: when does the frost end?
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.
Bridgewater Town sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 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.
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
At roughly 198 frost-free days, Bridgewater Town places 18,302 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 118 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 02332's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bridgewater Town's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bridgewater Town can differ from the 02332 normal.