Poultney, VT 12837 Frost Dates
Poultney, VT: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Poultney in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 6 weeks until Poultney's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Poultney's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Poultney against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 164 frost-free days, Poultney places 31,054 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within VT, it ranks 28 of 330.
Learn more
Before leaning on 12837's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Poultney's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Poultney can differ from the 12837 normal.