Essex Junction, VT 05452 Frost Dates
Essex Junction, VT: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/02, about 247 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 160 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 Essex Junction, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 6 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
05/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Essex Junction against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 160 frost-free days, Essex Junction places 32,268 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VT, it ranks 40 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 05452's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Essex Junction's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Essex Junction can differ from the 05452 normal.