Jeffersonville, VT 05448 Frost Dates
Jeffersonville, VT: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/18, about 263 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/30, roughly 134 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Jeffersonville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Jeffersonville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Jeffersonville's last frost
05/18 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 06/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jeffersonville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 134 frost-free days, Jeffersonville places 37,997 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VT, it ranks 239 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 05448's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Jeffersonville can differ from the 05448 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Jeffersonville's frost date answer different questions.