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Luxemburg, WI 54229 Frost Dates

54229, near Luxemburg, WI: the frost window

Zone 5b

Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/09, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Luxemburg in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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

Luxemburg's growing season runs out in roughly 6 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

Why 05/07 isn't a guarantee

05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Luxemburg against the rest of the dataset

Luxemburg's growing season runs about 154 days, ranking 34,330 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WI, it ranks 482 of 860.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 54229: local microclimates, on what one yard in Luxemburg can differ from the 54229 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Luxemburg's frost date answer different questions.