Cleveland, WI 53063 Frost Dates
53063, near Cleveland, WI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/05, roughly 250 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cleveland 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
Cleveland's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Cleveland's last frost
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cleveland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 154 frost-free days, Cleveland places 34,347 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WI, it ranks 484 of 860.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 53063: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Cleveland's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cleveland's dates instead of trusting one.