Shorewood Hills, WI 53705 Frost Dates
Shorewood Hills, WI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/28, about 243 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 169 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 Shorewood Hills, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Shorewood Hills's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/28 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 05/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Shorewood Hills against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 169 frost-free days, Shorewood Hills places 29,469 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WI, it ranks 138 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 53705's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5b and Shorewood Hills's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Shorewood Hills's dates instead of trusting one.