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Claremont, NH 03782 Frost Dates

Claremont, NH: when does the frost end?

Zone 5b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 158 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Claremont, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 6 weeks until Claremont's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Claremont's last frost

05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Claremont against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 158 frost-free days, Claremont places 32,935 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NH, it ranks 83 of 260.

Learn more

Before leaning on 03782's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Claremont's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Claremont's dates instead of trusting one.