Newfane, VT 05141 Frost Dates
05141, near Newfane, VT: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/08, about 253 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 149 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Newfane in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Newfane'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 Newfane's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 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.
Newfane against the rest of the dataset
About 149 days separate Newfane's last and first frost, putting it 35,596 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VT, it ranks 84 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05141: the frost range, on how to read the range around Newfane's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Newfane can differ from the 05141 normal.