Lohrville, Wisconsin, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Lohrville, 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 Lohrville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lohrville — the short answer
Lohrville, Wisconsin: USDA zone 5a, about 179 days between hard freezes, across 777 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~179
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 777 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 Lohrville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lohrville's 179-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lohrville
Each reading below is measured for Lohrville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLohrville runs about 179 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
MeasuredLohrville 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 Lohrville is in
Lohrville sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lohrville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Waushara County.
What Grows in Lohrville
Every plant below cleared Lohrville's own zone 5a and its 179-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lohrville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 16 — 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.
Documented around Lohrville
Spotted lanternfly documented 30 miles from Lohrville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lohrville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lohrville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RICHARD BLOOMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- ERANIO MONACELLIUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- DONALD DUTCHERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MILSCO MFG COToxics Release Inventory · 0.7 mi
- MILSCO MFG COBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- Kwik Trip #781Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- PETERSONS FS SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Toms Auto CareUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- ANTHONY J SANTUCCIUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- LOHRVILLE STONE COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- LUNGWITZ INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- MONACELLI MASONARYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lohrville'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 Lohrville.
Total Sites
229
within ~10 miles of Lohrville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lohrville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lohrville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lohrville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 163 sites within ~10 miles of Lohrville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Lohrville
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 Lohrville average
Your land is one point inside Lohrville
Everything above resolves to Lohrville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 777 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 Lohrville Average
Lohrville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Lohrville
- ●One soil character for all of Lohrville
- ●Frost dates read at Lohrville's scale: Apr 20 to Oct 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lohrville's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lohrville
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Three things about your lot that Lohrville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lohrville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lohrville average
How we know this about Lohrville
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 Lohrville’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 Lohrville
When does frost risk typically end in Lohrville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lohrville typically lands around Apr 20, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Lohrville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lohrville typically arrives around Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 2, so the watching starts about Sep 16 — about 179 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lohrville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lohrville sees about 179 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Oct 2, about 144 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lohrville?
The federal record around Lohrville is a meaningful one — 229 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (163), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Lohrville?
From about Sep 16 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lohrville's scale — its 5a band and its 179-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lohrville'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 Lohrville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lohrville's own scale — its own ~179-day season between 28°F freezes, the 777 acres it covers and 229 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lohrville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lohrville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Oct 16 and the ~179-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 229 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lohrville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lohrville's boundary and the 777 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~179-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lohrville's own centroid, the North Central Hardwood ForestsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lohrvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lohrville's 777 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Waushara County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Waushara 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 Waushara County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lohrville's 777 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lohrville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 777 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Lohrville-wide figureread your own land →