Kohler, WI 53044 Frost Dates
53044, near Kohler, WI: the frost window
Around 04/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 240 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Kohler in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Kohler's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kohler against the rest of the dataset
Kohler's growing season runs about 179 days, ranking 25,337 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WI, it ranks 39 of 860.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 53044: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kohler's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kohler can differ from the 53044 normal.