Wells River, VT 05069 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Wells River, VT, ZIP 05069
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/15, about 260 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 09/28, about 133 frost-free days later.
Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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 Wells River, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 4b around Wells River has about 4 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 05/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 06/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Wells River compares
At roughly 133 frost-free days, Wells River places 38,104 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VT, it ranks 259 of 330.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Wells River's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Wells River's dates instead of trusting one.