Stratford, WI 54484 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Stratford, WI, ZIP 54484
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/05, about 250 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/05, about 150 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Stratford in Zone 4b (-25 to -20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 4b around Stratford has about 5 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Stratford's last frost
05/05 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. 05/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Stratford compares
At roughly 150 frost-free days, Stratford places 35,320 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WI, it ranks 568 of 860.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Stratford's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Stratford's dates instead of trusting one.