Livingston, WI 53554 Frost Dates
53554, near Livingston, WI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/30, roughly 245 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/13, roughly 166 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Livingston in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Livingston's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Livingston's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Livingston against the rest of the dataset
About 166 days separate Livingston's last and first frost, putting it 30,426 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WI, it ranks 186 of 860.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 53554: local microclimates, on what one yard in Livingston can differ from the 53554 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Livingston's frost date answer different questions.