Wausaukee, WI 54104 Frost Dates
54104, near Wausaukee, WI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/26, roughly 271 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/22, roughly 118 days after the last spring frost.
Wausaukee sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wausaukee's growing season runs out in roughly 4 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 Wausaukee's last frost
05/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wausaukee against the rest of the dataset
Wausaukee's growing season runs about 118 days, ranking 39,220 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WI, it ranks 849 of 860.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 54104: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wausaukee's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wausaukee can differ from the 54104 normal.