Enosburg Falls, VT 05471 Frost Dates
05471, near Enosburg Falls, VT: the frost window
Around 05/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 259 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 139 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 Enosburg Falls, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Enosburg Falls'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.
Why 05/14 isn't a guarantee
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Enosburg Falls against the rest of the dataset
About 139 days separate Enosburg Falls's last and first frost, putting it 37,242 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VT, it ranks 185 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05471: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Enosburg Falls's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Enosburg Falls's dates instead of trusting one.