FrostDateCheck

Bridgewater Town, MA 02337 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Bridgewater Town, MA?

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 178 frost-free days later.

Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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.

What to do before the first frost

About 7 weeks of growing season left in Bridgewater Town before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Bridgewater Town's last frost

04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/08 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Bridgewater Town compares

At roughly 178 frost-free days, Bridgewater Town places 25,586 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 259 of 712.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Bridgewater Town's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Bridgewater Town can differ from the 02337 normal.