Wells River, VT 05042 Frost Dates
Wells River, VT: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/15, roughly 260 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/28, roughly 133 days after the last spring frost.
Wells River sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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
With roughly 4 weeks until Wells River's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wells River's last frost
05/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wells River against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 133 frost-free days, Wells River places 38,103 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VT, it ranks 258 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 05042's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Wells River's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Wells River can differ from the 05042 normal.