Woodstock, VT 05065 Frost Dates
Woodstock, VT: when does the frost end?
Around 05/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 254 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 145 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
With roughly 5 weeks until Woodstock'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
05/09 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 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodstock against the rest of the dataset
About 145 days separate Woodstock's last and first frost, putting it 36,237 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VT, it ranks 99 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 05065's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Woodstock's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Woodstock's dates instead of trusting one.