West Burke, VT 05832 Frost Dates
05832, near West Burke, VT: the frost window
Around 05/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 275 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/16, roughly 109 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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 West Burke, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
West Burke's growing season runs out in roughly 3 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 West Burke's last frost
05/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Burke against the rest of the dataset
About 109 days separate West Burke's last and first frost, putting it 39,526 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VT, it ranks 323 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05832: the frost range, on how to read the range around West Burke's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in West Burke can differ from the 05832 normal.