Westfield, MA 06060 Frost Dates
Westfield, MA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/17, roughly 171 days after the last spring frost.
Westfield 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 7 weeks until Westfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Westfield's last frost
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Westfield against the rest of the dataset
About 171 days separate Westfield's last and first frost, putting it 28,589 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MA, it ranks 323 of 712.
Learn more
Before leaning on 06060's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6a and Westfield's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Westfield's dates instead of trusting one.