Agawam Town, MA 06080 Frost Dates
06080, near Agawam Town, MA: the frost window
Around 04/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 236 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 177 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Agawam Town in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Agawam Town's growing season runs out in roughly 7 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 Agawam Town's last frost
04/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Agawam Town against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 177 frost-free days, Agawam Town places 26,026 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MA, it ranks 288 of 712.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 06080: local microclimates, on what one yard in Agawam Town can differ from the 06080 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Agawam Town's frost date answer different questions.