Kenosha, WI 53144 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Kenosha, WI, ZIP 53144
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/28, roughly 243 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/19, about 174 frost-free days later.
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 Kenosha, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Kenosha has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Kenosha compares
At roughly 174 frost-free days, Kenosha places 27,322 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WI, it ranks 93 of 860.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Kenosha's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Kenosha's dates instead of trusting one.