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Barton, VT 05875 Frost Dates

Barton, VT: when does the frost end?

Zone 4b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 06/01, roughly 277 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/13, roughly 103 days after the last spring frost.

Barton 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

With roughly 2 weeks until Barton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

How much risk comes with planting early here

06/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Barton against the rest of the dataset

About 103 days separate Barton's last and first frost, putting it 39,627 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within VT, it ranks 328 of 330.

Learn more

Before leaning on 05875's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Barton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Barton's dates instead of trusting one.