Bellows Falls, VT 03456 Frost Dates
03456, near Bellows Falls, VT: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/08, roughly 253 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 149 days after the last spring frost.
Bellows Falls sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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
Bellows Falls's growing season runs out in roughly 5 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 Bellows Falls's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bellows Falls against the rest of the dataset
Bellows Falls's growing season runs about 149 days, ranking 35,523 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VT, it ranks 73 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 03456: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bellows Falls can differ from the 03456 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Bellows Falls's frost date answer different questions.