Wells River, VT 05848 Frost Dates
05848, near Wells River, VT: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/13, roughly 258 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
Wells River sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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
Wells River'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 Wells River'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 05/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wells River against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 143 frost-free days, Wells River places 36,605 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VT, it ranks 108 of 330.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 05848: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wells River's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wells River can differ from the 05848 normal.