Lodi, WI 53555 Frost Dates
53555, near Lodi, WI: the frost window
Around 05/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 246 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 Lodi, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lodi'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.
The actual range around Lodi's last frost
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 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.
Lodi against the rest of the dataset
About 162 days separate Lodi's last and first frost, putting it 31,731 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WI, it ranks 268 of 860.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 53555: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lodi can differ from the 53555 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5a and Lodi's frost date answer different questions.