Poultney, VT 05750 Frost Dates
05750, near Poultney, VT: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Poultney 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
Poultney's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Poultney against the rest of the dataset
About 164 days separate Poultney's last and first frost, putting it 31,052 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VT, it ranks 26 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05750: the frost range, on how to read the range around Poultney's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Poultney can differ from the 05750 normal.