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Wausaukee, WI 54177 Frost Dates

Wausaukee, WI: when does the frost end?

Zone 4b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/22, about 267 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 09/27, roughly 126 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

With roughly 4 weeks until Wausaukee's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Wausaukee's last frost

05/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 05/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 06/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Wausaukee against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 126 frost-free days, Wausaukee places 38,704 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WI, it ranks 811 of 860.

Learn more

Before leaning on 54177's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Wausaukee's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wausaukee's dates instead of trusting one.