St. Albans, VT 05483 Frost Dates
St. Albans, VT: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 161 days after the last spring frost.
St. Albans 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 6 weeks until St. Albans's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around St. Albans's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
St. Albans against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 161 frost-free days, St. Albans places 32,017 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VT, it ranks 34 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 05483's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and St. Albans's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around St. Albans's dates instead of trusting one.