East Providence, RI 02915 Frost Dates
02915, near East Providence, RI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts East Providence in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
East Providence'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
East Providence against the rest of the dataset
About 199 days separate East Providence's last and first frost, putting it 18,025 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within RI, it ranks 48 of 79.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 02915: the frost range, on how to read the range around East Providence's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in East Providence can differ from the 02915 normal.