Stevens Point, WI 54481 Frost Dates
Stevens Point, WI: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/07, roughly 155 days after the last spring frost.
Stevens Point sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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 6 weeks until Stevens Point's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Stevens Point's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stevens Point against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 155 frost-free days, Stevens Point places 33,920 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WI, it ranks 434 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 54481's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 5a and Stevens Point's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Stevens Point's dates instead of trusting one.