Woodstock, VT 05746 Frost Dates
05746, near Woodstock, VT: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/13, about 258 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/02, roughly 141 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 Woodstock, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Woodstock'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 Woodstock's last frost
05/13 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.
Woodstock against the rest of the dataset
About 141 days separate Woodstock's last and first frost, putting it 36,946 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VT, it ranks 168 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05746: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Woodstock's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Woodstock's dates instead of trusting one.