Lisbon, WI 53017 Frost Dates
Lisbon, WI: when does the frost end?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/16, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lisbon 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 7 weeks until Lisbon'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
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lisbon against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Lisbon's last and first frost, putting it 29,912 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WI, it ranks 157 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 53017's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lisbon can differ from the 53017 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Lisbon's frost date answer different questions.