Durand, WI 54736 Frost Dates
54736, near Durand, WI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/01, roughly 246 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 162 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 4b (-25 to -20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Durand, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Durand'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.
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 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Durand against the rest of the dataset
Durand's growing season runs about 162 days, ranking 31,762 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WI, it ranks 273 of 860.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 54736: the frost range, on how to read the range around Durand's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Durand can differ from the 54736 normal.