Cambridge, VT 05444 Frost Dates
05444, near Cambridge, VT: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/23, roughly 268 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/30, roughly 130 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cambridge 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
Cambridge'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 Cambridge's last frost
05/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cambridge against the rest of the dataset
About 130 days separate Cambridge's last and first frost, putting it 38,413 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VT, it ranks 283 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05444: the frost range, on how to read the range around Cambridge's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Cambridge can differ from the 05444 normal.