Waterbury, CT 06706 Frost Dates
Waterbury, CT: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 175 days after the last spring frost.
Waterbury sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Waterbury's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/26 isn't a guarantee
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waterbury against the rest of the dataset
About 175 days separate Waterbury's last and first frost, putting it 26,706 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within CT, it ranks 286 of 391.
Learn more
Before leaning on 06706's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Waterbury's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Waterbury's dates instead of trusting one.