Bellows Falls, VT 03609 Frost Dates
Bellows Falls, VT: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bellows Falls 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 Bellows Falls's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 149 frost-free days, Bellows Falls places 35,525 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VT, it ranks 75 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 03609's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bellows Falls can differ from the 03609 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Bellows Falls's frost date answer different questions.