Essex Junction, VT 05405 Frost Dates
Essex Junction, VT: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 169 days after the last spring frost.
Essex Junction sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 7 weeks until Essex Junction's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Essex Junction's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Essex Junction against the rest of the dataset
Essex Junction's growing season runs about 169 days, ranking 29,378 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VT, it ranks 12 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 05405's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Essex Junction can differ from the 05405 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Essex Junction's frost date answer different questions.