Nekoosa, WI 54457 Frost Dates
Nekoosa, WI: when does the frost end?
Around 05/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 253 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 145 days after the last spring frost.
Nekoosa 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 5 weeks until Nekoosa'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
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/26 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.
Nekoosa against the rest of the dataset
Nekoosa's growing season runs about 145 days, ranking 36,206 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WI, it ranks 656 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 54457's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Nekoosa can differ from the 54457 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Nekoosa's frost date answer different questions.