Pound, WI 54161 Frost Dates
Pound, WI: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/14, roughly 259 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 139 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pound 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 5 weeks until Pound'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
05/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pound against the rest of the dataset
About 139 days separate Pound's last and first frost, putting it 37,271 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WI, it ranks 737 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 54161's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pound's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pound can differ from the 54161 normal.