Fairchild, WI 54741 Frost Dates
54741, near Fairchild, WI: the frost window
Around 05/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 252 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 146 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fairchild in Zone 4b (-25 to -20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fairchild's growing season runs out in roughly 5 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 05/07 isn't a guarantee
05/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/23 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.
Fairchild against the rest of the dataset
Fairchild's growing season runs about 146 days, ranking 36,103 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WI, it ranks 649 of 860.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 54741: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 4b and Fairchild's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fairchild's dates instead of trusting one.