Menomonie, WI 54764 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.
Menomonie 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 Menomonie'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
05/09 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
Menomonie's growing season runs about 143 days, ranking 36,497 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within WI, it ranks 687 of 860.
Learn more
Before leaning on 54764's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 4b and Menomonie's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Menomonie's dates instead of trusting one.