Salem Lakes, WI 53192 Frost Dates
Salem Lakes, WI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 179 days after the last spring frost.
Salem Lakes 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Salem Lakes's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Salem Lakes's last frost
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Salem Lakes against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Salem Lakes's last and first frost, putting it 25,224 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WI, it ranks 33 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 53192's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Salem Lakes's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Salem Lakes's dates instead of trusting one.