Methuen, MA 03079 Frost Dates
Methuen, 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 10/28, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Methuen sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Methuen's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Methuen's last frost
04/13 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 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Methuen against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Methuen's last and first frost, putting it 18,271 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 104 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 03079's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Methuen's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Methuen's dates instead of trusting one.