Barre, VT 05675 Frost Dates
05675, near Barre, 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 09/29, roughly 136 days after the last spring frost.
Barre 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
Barre'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 Barre's last frost
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 05/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Barre against the rest of the dataset
Barre's growing season runs about 136 days, ranking 37,662 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within VT, it ranks 215 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05675: the frost range, on how to read the range around Barre's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Barre can differ from the 05675 normal.