Newbury, VT 03282 Frost Dates
Newbury, VT: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/12, roughly 257 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 146 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Newbury, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 weeks until Newbury's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Newbury's last frost
05/12 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 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newbury against the rest of the dataset
About 146 days separate Newbury's last and first frost, putting it 36,098 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VT, it ranks 97 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 03282's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Newbury's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Newbury can differ from the 03282 normal.