Neopit, Wisconsin, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Neopit, 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 Neopit lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Neopit — the short answer
Neopit, Wisconsin: USDA zone 4b, about 157 days between hard freezes, across 8K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~157
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 8K 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 Neopit's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Neopit's 157-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Neopit
Each reading below is measured for Neopit itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNeopit runs about 157 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
MeasuredNeopit 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 Neopit is in
Neopit sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Neopit's own centroid rather than borrowed from Menominee County.
What Grows in Neopit
Every plant below cleared Neopit's own zone 4b and its 157-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Neopit?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 8 — 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 Neopit
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Neopit. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PONFILS GROCERY LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- ME-29/14E/16-0157Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- ME-29/14E/16-0158Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- ME-29/14E/19-0103Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- ME-29/13E/24-0047Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- ME-29/14E/10-0195Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- ME-29/14E/10-0194Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- BOIVIN PROPERTYBrownfields · 3.1 mi
- BOIVIN OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- MENOMINEE COUNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- Menominee Tribal EnterprisesUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- JAMES A BOIVIN DBA BOIVIN OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Neopit'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 Neopit.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Neopit
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Neopit
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Neopit, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 84 sites within ~10 miles of Neopit. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Neopit
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 Neopit average
Your land is one point inside Neopit
Everything above resolves to Neopit as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 8K 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 Neopit Average
Neopit Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Neopit
- ●One soil character for all of Neopit
- ●Frost dates read at Neopit's scale: May 4 to Oct 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Neopit's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Neopit
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Neopit, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Neopit averages can't show:
We read public map data around Neopit — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Neopit average
How we know this about Neopit
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 Neopit’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 Neopit
When does frost risk typically end in Neopit?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Neopit typically lands around May 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Neopit?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Neopit typically arrives around Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 24, so the watching starts about Sep 8 — about 157 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Neopit?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Neopit sees about 157 frost-free days — roughly May 4 through Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 25 to Sep 24, about 122 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Neopit?
The federal record around Neopit shows 114 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (84), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Neopit?
From about Sep 8 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Neopit's scale — its 4b band and its 157-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Neopit'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 Neopit’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Neopit's own scale — its own ~157-day season between 28°F freezes, the 7,777 acres it covers and 114 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Neopit's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Neopit's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 4 and Oct 8 and the ~157-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 114 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Neopit, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Neopit's boundary and the 7,777 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~157-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Neopit'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 Neopit's 7,777 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 Neopit's 7,777 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Neopit you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 7,777 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Neopit-wide figureread your own land →
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