Woonsocket, RI 02824 Frost Dates
02824, near Woonsocket, RI: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
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 Woonsocket, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Woonsocket's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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 Woonsocket's last frost
04/30 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 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woonsocket against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 162 frost-free days, Woonsocket places 31,614 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within RI, it ranks 69 of 79.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02824: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Woonsocket's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Woonsocket's dates instead of trusting one.