Brockton, MA 02382 Frost Dates
02382, near Brockton, MA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 178 days after the last spring frost.
Brockton 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
Brockton's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Brockton's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brockton against the rest of the dataset
Brockton's growing season runs about 178 days, ranking 25,557 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MA, it ranks 257 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02382: local microclimates, on what one yard in Brockton can differ from the 02382 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Brockton's frost date answer different questions.