Saxtons River, VT 05359 Frost Dates
05359, near Saxtons River, VT: the frost window
Around 05/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 261 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 140 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Saxtons River 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
Saxtons River'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 Saxtons River's last frost
05/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Saxtons River against the rest of the dataset
About 140 days separate Saxtons River's last and first frost, putting it 37,130 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VT, it ranks 182 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05359: the frost range, on how to read the range around Saxtons River's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Saxtons River can differ from the 05359 normal.