Jacksonville, VT 05342 Frost Dates
Jacksonville, VT: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/14, about 259 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/04, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
Jacksonville sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 5 weeks until Jacksonville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Jacksonville's last frost
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jacksonville against the rest of the dataset
About 143 days separate Jacksonville's last and first frost, putting it 36,645 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VT, it ranks 125 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 05342's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Jacksonville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Jacksonville can differ from the 05342 normal.