Independence, WI 54747 Frost Dates
Independence, WI: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 05/09, about 254 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 143 days after the last spring frost.
Independence 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 Independence's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Independence's last frost
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Independence against the rest of the dataset
About 143 days separate Independence's last and first frost, putting it 36,555 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WI, it ranks 691 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 54747's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Independence's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Independence's dates instead of trusting one.