Woodstock, VT 05034 Frost Dates
05034, near Woodstock, VT: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/13, about 258 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 141 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 Woodstock, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Woodstock'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 Woodstock's last frost
05/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodstock against the rest of the dataset
Woodstock's growing season runs about 141 days, ranking 36,935 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VT, it ranks 157 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05034: the frost range, on how to read the range around Woodstock's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Woodstock can differ from the 05034 normal.