West Burke, VT 05849 Frost Dates
West Burke, VT: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts West Burke 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
With roughly 5 weeks until West Burke's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around West Burke'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.
West Burke against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 143 frost-free days, West Burke places 36,624 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VT, it ranks 112 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 05849's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and West Burke's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around West Burke's dates instead of trusting one.