Bridgeport, CT 06611 Frost Dates
06611, near Bridgeport, CT: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/05, roughly 220 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Bridgeport, not a forecast for this year.
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 13,692 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within CT, it ranks 16 of 391.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 06611: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bridgeport's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bridgeport can differ from the 06611 normal.