Woodstock, VT 05067 Frost Dates
05067, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Woodstock in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 36,941 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VT, it ranks 163 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05067: 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 05067 normal.