Wild Rose, WI 54976 Frost Dates
54976, near Wild Rose, WI: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/08, roughly 253 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/06, roughly 151 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wild Rose in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
Wild Rose'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.
Why 05/08 isn't a guarantee
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wild Rose against the rest of the dataset
About 151 days separate Wild Rose's last and first frost, putting it 35,108 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within WI, it ranks 548 of 860.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 54976: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wild Rose's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wild Rose can differ from the 54976 normal.