Muscoda, WI 53573 Frost Dates
Muscoda, WI: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/05, roughly 250 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Muscoda 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
With roughly 6 weeks until Muscoda's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Muscoda's last frost
05/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Muscoda against the rest of the dataset
About 154 days separate Muscoda's last and first frost, putting it 34,357 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WI, it ranks 490 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 53573's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Muscoda can differ from the 53573 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Muscoda's frost date answer different questions.