Loganville, Wisconsin, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Loganville, 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 Loganville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Loganville — the short answer
Loganville, Wisconsin: USDA zone 5a, about 184 days between hard freezes, across 170 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~184
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 170 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 5a is Loganville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Loganville's 184-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Loganville
Each reading below is measured for Loganville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLoganville runs about 184 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
MeasuredLoganville sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
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 Loganville is in
Loganville sits in the Driftless Area — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Loganville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sauk County.
What Grows in Loganville
Every plant below cleared Loganville's own zone 5a and its 184-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Loganville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Loganville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Loganville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOLLAR GENERAL #31116Brownfields · 800 ft
- ADAMS ANTIQUE AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- STEVENS FEED & SUPPLY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- R & L SUPPLY CO OPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Kindschis KornerUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Grande Cheese CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Bob & Dave GieseUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- ROBERT RIBBKEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- R & L SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- SK-11/04E/08-0129Nitrate · 1800 ft
- JAMES THIEDING CONSTRUCTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- DORIS M HENKEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Loganville'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 Loganville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Loganville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Loganville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Loganville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 145 sites within ~10 miles of Loganville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Loganville
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 Loganville average
Your land is one point inside Loganville
Everything above resolves to Loganville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 170 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 Loganville Average
Loganville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Loganville
- ●One soil character for all of Loganville
- ●Frost dates read at Loganville's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Loganville's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Loganville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Loganville average
How we know this about Loganville
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 Loganville’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 Loganville
When does frost risk typically end in Loganville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Loganville typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Loganville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Loganville typically arrives around Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 3, so the watching starts about Sep 17 — about 184 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Loganville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Loganville sees about 184 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 3, about 149 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Loganville?
The federal record around Loganville is a meaningful one — 194 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (145), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Loganville?
From about Sep 17 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Loganville's scale — its 5a band and its 184-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Loganville'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 Loganville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Loganville's own scale — its own ~184-day season between 28°F freezes, the 170 acres it covers and 194 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Loganville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Loganville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 17 and the ~184-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 194 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Loganville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Loganville's boundary and the 170 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~184-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Loganville's own centroid, the Driftless AreaUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Loganville's 170 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sauk County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sauk 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 Sauk County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Loganville's 170 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Loganville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 170 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Loganville-wide figureread your own land →
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