Barnstable Town, MA 02554 Frost Dates
Barnstable Town, MA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/13, roughly 228 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 208 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Barnstable Town, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Barnstable Town's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/13 isn't a guarantee
04/13 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 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Barnstable Town against the rest of the dataset
About 208 days separate Barnstable Town's last and first frost, putting it 15,524 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 56 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 02554's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Barnstable Town can differ from the 02554 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Barnstable Town's frost date answer different questions.