Lake Hallie, Wisconsin, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lake Hallie, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Lake Hallie lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Lake Hallie — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lake Hallie — the short answer
Lake Hallie, Wisconsin: USDA zone 4b, about 174 days between hard freezes, across 9K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~174
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 9K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 4b is Lake Hallie's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lake Hallie's 174-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lake Hallie
Each reading below is measured for Lake Hallie itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLake Hallie runs about 174 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredLake Hallie sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Lake Hallie is in
Lake Hallie sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lake Hallie's own centroid rather than borrowed from Chippewa County.
What Grows in Lake Hallie
Every plant below cleared Lake Hallie's own zone 4b and its 174-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lake Hallie?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
What's on the federal record near Lake Hallie
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lake Hallie. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JOHNSON MONUMENT CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- JACOBS PROPERTYBrownfields · 1900 ft
- Kwik Trip #352Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- U S OIL CO INC - CHIPPEWA FALLS TERMINALBrownfields · 2300 ft
- WISSOTA ENTERPRISES INCBrownfields · 2400 ft
- TRIANGLE REFINERIES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- DURCO LTDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- WALMART SUPERCENTER #5373Brownfields · 2600 ft
- Amoco Oil CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- DOHRN TRANSFER CO.Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- MAGELLAN PIPELINE CO LP- CHIPPEWA FALLSBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- Waste Managment Of WI IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lake Hallie's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Lake Hallie.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lake Hallie
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lake Hallie
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Lake Hallie
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lake Hallie average
Your land is one point inside Lake Hallie
Everything above resolves to Lake Hallie as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 9K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Lake Hallie Average
Lake Hallie Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Lake Hallie
- ●One soil character for all of Lake Hallie
- ●Frost dates read at Lake Hallie's scale: Apr 24 to Oct 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lake Hallie's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lake Hallie
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lake Hallie, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lake Hallie averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lake Hallie — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lake Hallie average
How we know this about Lake Hallie
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Lake Hallie’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Lake Hallie
When does frost risk typically end in Lake Hallie?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Hallie typically lands around Apr 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 15.
When is the first frost in Lake Hallie?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Hallie typically arrives around Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 1, so the watching starts about Sep 15 — about 174 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lake Hallie?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lake Hallie sees about 174 frost-free days — roughly Apr 24 through Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 15 to Oct 1, about 139 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lake Hallie?
The federal record around Lake Hallie runs heavier than most — 1,138 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (610), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lake Hallie?
From about Sep 15 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lake Hallie's scale — its 4b band and its 174-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lake Hallie's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Lake Hallie’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lake Hallie's own scale — its own ~174-day season between 28°F freezes, the 9,106 acres it covers and 1,138 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lake Hallie's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lake Hallie's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 24 and Oct 15 and the ~174-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,138 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lake Hallie, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lake Hallie's boundary and the 9,106 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~174-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lake Hallie's own centroid, the North Central Hardwood ForestsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lake Hallie's 9,106 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Chippewa County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Chippewa County
- The growing challenges every Wisconsin grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Wisconsin
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Chippewa County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lake Hallie's 9,106 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lake Hallie you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 9,106 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Lake Hallie-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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