Stockbridge, WI 53088 Frost Dates
Stockbridge, WI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/01, about 246 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Stockbridge, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Stockbridge's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Stockbridge's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stockbridge against the rest of the dataset
About 162 days separate Stockbridge's last and first frost, putting it 31,827 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WI, it ranks 282 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 53088's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Stockbridge can differ from the 53088 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Stockbridge's frost date answer different questions.