Menomonie, WI 54751 Frost Dates
Menomonie, WI: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/09, roughly 254 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/01, roughly 143 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 Menomonie, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 5 weeks until Menomonie's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Menomonie's last frost
05/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Menomonie against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 143 frost-free days, Menomonie places 36,496 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WI, it ranks 686 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 54751's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Menomonie can differ from the 54751 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Menomonie's frost date answer different questions.