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Wrightstown, WI 54180 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Wrightstown, WI?

Zone 5b

Around 05/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 251 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/06, about 151 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 Wrightstown, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

About 6 weeks of growing season left in Wrightstown before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Wrightstown's last frost

05/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Wrightstown compares

Wrightstown's growing season runs about 151 days, ranking 35,016 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WI, it ranks 533 of 860.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Wrightstown's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Wrightstown can differ from the 54180 normal.