Enosburg Falls, Vermont, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Enosburg Falls, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Enosburg Falls lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Enosburg Falls — the short answer
Enosburg Falls, Vermont: USDA zone 4b, about 167 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~167
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 4b is Enosburg Falls's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Enosburg Falls's 167-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Enosburg Falls
Each reading below is measured for Enosburg Falls itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEnosburg Falls runs about 167 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredEnosburg Falls sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Enosburg Falls is in
Enosburg Falls sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Enosburg Falls's own centroid rather than borrowed from Franklin County.
What Grows in Enosburg Falls
Every plant below cleared Enosburg Falls's own zone 4b and its 167-day season. Each card opens that plant's Vermont profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Enosburg Falls?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 16 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Enosburg Falls
Survey cells within 31 miles of Enosburg Falls checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 86 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Enosburg Falls
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Enosburg Falls. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FRANKLIN FOODS INCBrownfields · 450 ft
- Former Goodhue PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- Blouin Bros.Underground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- BLOUIN BROTHERS OILBrownfields · 750 ft
- STEWART'S SHOP #527Brownfields · 750 ft
- Enosburg JolleyUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- O'REILLY AUTO PARTS STORE 5696Brownfields · 800 ft
- FRANKLIN FOODS, INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 800 ft
- Former Enosburg Fire StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- COLD HOLLOW CAREER CTRBrownfields · 1000 ft
- FRANKLIN FOODSToxics Release Inventory · 1100 ft
- CHAMPLAIN CHEVROLETBrownfields · 1200 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Enosburg Falls's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Enosburg Falls.
Total Sites
123
within ~10 miles of Enosburg Falls
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Enosburg Falls
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Enosburg Falls
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
Check your specific parcel in Enosburg Falls
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Your land is one point inside Enosburg Falls
Everything above resolves to Enosburg Falls as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Enosburg Falls Average
Enosburg Falls Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Enosburg Falls
- ●One soil character for all of Enosburg Falls
- ●Frost dates read at Enosburg Falls's scale: May 2 to Oct 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Enosburg Falls's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Enosburg Falls
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Enosburg Falls, Vermont — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Enosburg Falls averages can't show:
We read public map data around Enosburg Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Enosburg Falls average
How we know this about Enosburg Falls
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Enosburg Falls’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Enosburg Falls
When does frost risk typically end in Enosburg Falls?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Enosburg Falls typically lands around May 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 23.
When is the first frost in Enosburg Falls?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Enosburg Falls typically arrives around Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 2, so the watching starts about Sep 16 — about 167 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Enosburg Falls?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Enosburg Falls sees about 167 frost-free days — roughly May 2 through Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 23 to Oct 2, about 132 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Enosburg Falls?
The federal record around Enosburg Falls shows 123 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (60), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Enosburg Falls?
From about Sep 16 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Enosburg Falls's scale — its 4b band and its 167-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Enosburg Falls's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Enosburg Falls’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Enosburg Falls's own scale — its own ~167-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,257 acres it covers and 123 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Enosburg Falls's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Enosburg Falls's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 2 and Oct 16 and the ~167-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 123 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Enosburg Falls, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Enosburg Falls's boundary and the 2,257 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~167-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Enosburg Falls's own centroid, the Northeastern HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Enosburg Falls checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Enosburg Falls's 2,257 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Franklin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Franklin County
- The growing challenges every Vermont grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Vermont
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Franklin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Enosburg Falls's 2,257 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Enosburg Falls you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,257 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Enosburg Falls-wide figureread your own land →
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