Jacksonville, VT 01346 Frost Dates
Jacksonville, VT: when does the frost end?
Around 05/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 259 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Jacksonville in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
With roughly 5 weeks until Jacksonville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Jacksonville's last frost
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jacksonville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 143 frost-free days, Jacksonville places 36,643 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VT, it ranks 123 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 01346's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Jacksonville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Jacksonville's dates instead of trusting one.