Little Chute, WI 54140 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Little Chute, WI, ZIP 54140
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/06, about 154 frost-free days later.
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 Little Chute, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5b around Little Chute has about 6 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Little Chute's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Little Chute compares
At roughly 154 frost-free days, Little Chute places 34,242 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WI, it ranks 472 of 860.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Little Chute's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Little Chute can differ from the 54140 normal.