Mount Hope, WI 53816 Frost Dates
Mount Hope, WI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 179 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 Mount Hope, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Mount Hope's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mount Hope's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mount Hope against the rest of the dataset
About 179 days separate Mount Hope's last and first frost, putting it 25,503 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WI, it ranks 42 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 53816's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Mount Hope can differ from the 53816 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Mount Hope's frost date answer different questions.