Appleton, WI 54913 Frost Dates
54913, near Appleton, WI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/04, roughly 249 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 154 days after the last spring frost.
Appleton sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Appleton'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.
The actual range around Appleton's last frost
05/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/21 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.
Appleton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 154 frost-free days, Appleton places 34,202 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within WI, it ranks 455 of 860.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 54913: the frost range, on how to read the range around Appleton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Appleton can differ from the 54913 normal.