Fall River, MA 02722 Frost Dates
02722, near Fall River, MA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Fall River, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fall River'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fall River against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 167 frost-free days, Fall River places 29,835 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 391 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02722: the frost range, on how to read the range around Fall River's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Fall River can differ from the 02722 normal.