Oakdale, WI 54649 Frost Dates
Oakdale, WI: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/03, roughly 157 days after the last spring frost.
Oakdale 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 Oakdale'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
05/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Oakdale against the rest of the dataset
Oakdale's growing season runs about 157 days, ranking 33,448 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WI, it ranks 409 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 54649's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Oakdale's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Oakdale can differ from the 54649 normal.