Bridgeport, CT 06606 Frost Dates
06606, near Bridgeport, CT: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Bridgeport sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 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
Bridgeport's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Bridgeport's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bridgeport against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 216 frost-free days, Bridgeport places 13,688 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CT, it ranks 12 of 391.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 06606: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Bridgeport's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bridgeport's dates instead of trusting one.