Bridgewater Town, MA 02344 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Bridgewater Town, MA, ZIP 02344
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 198 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
Zone 6b around Bridgewater Town has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Bridgewater Town's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bridgewater Town compares
About 198 days separate Bridgewater Town's last and first frost, putting it 18,303 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 119 of 712.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Bridgewater Town's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Bridgewater Town can differ from the 02344 normal.