Raymond, WI 53126 Frost Dates
53126, near Raymond, WI: the frost window
Around 05/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 250 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/08, roughly 156 days after the last spring frost.
Raymond sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Raymond'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Raymond against the rest of the dataset
Raymond's growing season runs about 156 days, ranking 33,587 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WI, it ranks 418 of 860.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 53126: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Raymond's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Raymond's dates instead of trusting one.