Evansville, WI 53536 Frost Dates
53536, near Evansville, WI: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/11, roughly 163 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 Evansville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Evansville'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
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Evansville against the rest of the dataset
Evansville's growing season runs about 163 days, ranking 31,372 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WI, it ranks 226 of 860.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 53536: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Evansville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Evansville's dates instead of trusting one.