Barton, VT 05842 Frost Dates
05842, near Barton, VT: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/09, roughly 254 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Barton in Zone 4b (-25 to -20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Barton'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 Barton's last frost
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Barton against the rest of the dataset
About 143 days separate Barton's last and first frost, putting it 36,578 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VT, it ranks 104 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05842: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4b and Barton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Barton's dates instead of trusting one.