Fall River, MA 02726 Frost Dates
02726, near Fall River, MA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 203 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 9 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 Fall River's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fall River against the rest of the dataset
About 203 days separate Fall River's last and first frost, putting it 16,827 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 87 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02726: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Fall River's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fall River's dates instead of trusting one.