Middle Village, Wisconsin, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
On paper, cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Middle Village, 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 Middle Village 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 Middle Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Middle Village — the short answer
Middle Village, Wisconsin: USDA zone 5a, about 162 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~162
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 Middle Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Middle Village's 162-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Middle Village
Each reading below is measured for Middle Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMiddle Village runs about 162 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
MeasuredMiddle Village 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 Middle Village is in
Middle Village sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Middle Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Menominee County.
What Grows in Middle Village
Every plant below cleared Middle Village's own zone 5a and its 162-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Middle Village?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Middle Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Middle Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ME-28/15E/07-0081Nitrate · 2600 ft
- ME-28/15E/07-0042Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- ME-28/15E/17-0161Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- ME-28/15E/16-0128Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- ME-28/15E/03-0052Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- ME-29/14E/35-0061Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- SH-28/14E/24-0235Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- SH-28/14E/14-0219Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- ME-28/15E/22-0160Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- ROBERT D HOBBSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- ME-28/15E/11-0131Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- ME-28/15E/14-0034Nitrate · 3.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Middle Village'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 Middle Village.
Total Sites
191
within ~10 miles of Middle Village
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Middle Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Middle Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Middle Village, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 144 sites within ~10 miles of Middle Village. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Middle Village
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 Middle Village average
Your land is one point inside Middle Village
Everything above resolves to Middle Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Middle Village Average
Middle Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Middle Village
- ●One soil character for all of Middle Village
- ●Frost dates read at Middle Village's scale: May 3 to Oct 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Middle Village's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Middle Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Middle Village, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Middle Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Middle Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Middle Village average
How we know this about Middle Village
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 Middle Village’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 Middle Village
When does frost risk typically end in Middle Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Middle Village typically lands around May 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Middle Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Middle Village typically arrives around Oct 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 28, so the watching starts about Sep 12 — about 162 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Middle Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Middle Village sees about 162 frost-free days — roughly May 3 through Oct 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 24 to Sep 28, about 127 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Middle Village?
The federal record around Middle Village shows 191 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (144), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.5 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Middle Village?
From about Sep 12 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Middle Village's scale — its 5a band and its 162-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Middle Village'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 Middle Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Middle Village's own scale — its own ~162-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,891 acres it covers and 191 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Middle Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Middle Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 3 and Oct 12 and the ~162-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 191 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Middle Village, the closest Nitrate record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Middle Village's boundary and the 3,891 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~162-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Middle Village'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 Middle Village's 3,891 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Menominee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Menominee 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 Menominee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Middle Village's 3,891 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Middle Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,891 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.5 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 Middle Village-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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