Frost dates for Bakersville, Connecticut
Half of years have their last spring frost by May 8 — but 1 year in 10 still frosts after May 22.
Every other site gives you one date. A frost date is not a date: it is a percentile from 30 years of records at a nearby weather station, and planting to the median means losing the crop in half of years. Both numbers are below, so you can choose the risk yourself.
The odds
Last spring frost
- Frost this late in 1 year in 10
- May 22
- 1 year in 5
- May 18
- 3 years in 10
- May 14
- 2 years in 5
- May 11
- Half of years (the median)
- May 8
First fall freeze
- Freeze this early in 1 year in 10
- September 25
- 1 year in 5
- September 30
- 3 years in 10
- October 1
- 2 years in 5
- October 3
- Half of years (the median)
- October 5
- Growing season
- about 151 days
- Hardiness zones nearby
- 6a, 6b
Where these numbers come from
NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 Climate Normals, station Bakersville (USC00060227), at 41.84, -73.01. These are that station's own records, unshifted. The further your garden is from it, the less exactly they describe your ground — the planner resolves the nearest station to your own ZIP and lowers its confidence with distance, rather than presenting one number as if it were measured in your yard.
Cold air also pools in low ground on the clear, still nights when frost happens, so a hollow can freeze while a slope a hundred metres away does not. No table can know that about your garden. Your own logged frosts eventually can.
ZIP codes nearest this station
06001, 06010, 06013, 06018, 06019, 06020, 06021, 06022, 06024, 06027, 06031, 06035, 06057, 06058, 06059, 06061, 06063, 06065, 06070, 06085, 06089, 06090, 06091, 06092, 06098, 06702, 06704, 06705, 06708, 06710, 06716, 06750, 06751, 06754, 06756, 06758, 06759, 06763, 06777, 06778, 06779, 06782, 06783, 06786, 06787, 06790, 06791, 06793, 06794, 06795, 06796, 06798.
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Nearby stations
The nearest stations, and how their last-frost dates compare — the frost gradient across your area, which no single station shows.
- Hartford Brainard Fld, CT — last frost by April 17
- Westfield Barnes Muni Ap, MA — last frost by May 3
- Lenox Dale, MA — last frost by May 7
- Millbrook 3 W, NY — last frost by May 4
- Storrs Hcn, CT — last frost by April 19
- New Haven Tweed Ap, CT — last frost by April 17
Other stations in Connecticut.
- Bridgeport Sikorsky Mem Ap, CT — last frost by April 5