Newfane, VT 05345 Frost Dates
Newfane, VT: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/08, roughly 253 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 149 days after the last spring frost.
Newfane 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 Newfane'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
05/08 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
At roughly 149 frost-free days, Newfane places 35,600 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VT, it ranks 88 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 05345's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Newfane can differ from the 05345 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Newfane's frost date answer different questions.