Jeffersonville, Vermont, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Jeffersonville, 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 Jeffersonville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Jeffersonville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Jeffersonville — the short answer
Jeffersonville, Vermont: USDA zone 4b, about 174 days between hard freezes, across 497 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~174
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 497 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 Jeffersonville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jeffersonville's 174-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jeffersonville
Each reading below is measured for Jeffersonville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredJeffersonville runs about 174 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
MeasuredJeffersonville 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 Jeffersonville is in
Jeffersonville sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Jeffersonville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lamoille County.
What Grows in Jeffersonville
Every plant below cleared Jeffersonville's own zone 4b and its 174-day season. Each card opens that plant's Vermont profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Jeffersonville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Jeffersonville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Jeffersonville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 68 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Jeffersonville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jeffersonville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Cambridge Elementary SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- G W TATRO CONSTRUCTION INCBrownfields · 850 ft
- G W Tatro ConstructionUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- JEFFERSONVILLE AUTOMOTIVEBrownfields · 1100 ft
- CAMBRIDGE TOWN GARAGEBrownfields · 1900 ft
- Cupboard Deli and BakeryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Cambridge Town GarageUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- MADONNA MOBIL REPAIRBrownfields · 2200 ft
- Maplefields at MadonnaUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Lamoille Valley Rail TrailUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Jacob's Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CUPBOARD DELI AND BAKERYBrownfields · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Jeffersonville'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 Jeffersonville.
Total Sites
115
within ~10 miles of Jeffersonville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Jeffersonville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jeffersonville
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 Jeffersonville
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Jeffersonville average
Your land is one point inside Jeffersonville
Everything above resolves to Jeffersonville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 497 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 Jeffersonville Average
Jeffersonville Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Jeffersonville
- ●One soil character for all of Jeffersonville
- ●Frost dates read at Jeffersonville's scale: Apr 26 to Oct 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jeffersonville's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Jeffersonville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Jeffersonville, Vermont — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Jeffersonville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Jeffersonville average
How we know this about Jeffersonville
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 Jeffersonville’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 Jeffersonville
When does frost risk typically end in Jeffersonville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jeffersonville typically lands around Apr 26, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Jeffersonville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jeffersonville typically arrives around Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 3, so the watching starts about Sep 17 — about 174 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jeffersonville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jeffersonville sees about 174 frost-free days — roughly Apr 26 through Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 17 to Oct 3, about 139 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jeffersonville?
The federal record around Jeffersonville shows 115 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (66), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 Jeffersonville?
From about Sep 17 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Jeffersonville's scale — its 4b band and its 174-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jeffersonville'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 Jeffersonville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Jeffersonville's own scale — its own ~174-day season between 28°F freezes, the 497 acres it covers and 115 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jeffersonville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Jeffersonville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 26 and Oct 17 and the ~174-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 115 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jeffersonville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jeffersonville's boundary and the 497 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~174-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Jeffersonville's own centroid, the Northeastern HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Jeffersonville 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 Jeffersonville's 497 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lamoille County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lamoille 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 Lamoille County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jeffersonville's 497 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jeffersonville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 497 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 Jeffersonville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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