Neshkoro, Wisconsin, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Neshkoro, 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 Neshkoro lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Neshkoro — the short answer
Neshkoro, Wisconsin: USDA zone 5a, about 178 days between hard freezes, across 1K 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 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~178
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Neshkoro's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Neshkoro's 178-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Neshkoro
Each reading below is measured for Neshkoro itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNeshkoro runs about 178 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
MeasuredNeshkoro 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 Neshkoro is in
Neshkoro sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Neshkoro's own centroid rather than borrowed from Marquette County.
What Grows in Neshkoro
Every plant below cleared Neshkoro's own zone 5a and its 178-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Neshkoro?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 15 — 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 Neshkoro
Spotted lanternfly documented 26 miles from Neshkoro, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Neshkoro
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Neshkoro. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- EDWARD KRENTZUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- NESHKORO GRADE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- Gohl Post Station IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- CHICKEN INNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- VACANT STOREFRONT/LOT - RIGHT OF WAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- DAVE KRENTZUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- NESHKORO GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- VILLAGE OF NESHKOROUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- SCHMITZ COFFEE SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Neshkoro StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- NESHKORO BPBrownfields · 2300 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL #18858Brownfields · 2400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Neshkoro'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 Neshkoro.
Total Sites
198
within ~10 miles of Neshkoro
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Neshkoro
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Neshkoro
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Neshkoro, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 150 sites within ~10 miles of Neshkoro. 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 Neshkoro
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 Neshkoro average
Your land is one point inside Neshkoro
Everything above resolves to Neshkoro as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Neshkoro Average
Neshkoro Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Neshkoro
- ●One soil character for all of Neshkoro
- ●Frost dates read at Neshkoro's scale: Apr 20 to Oct 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Neshkoro's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Neshkoro
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Neshkoro, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Neshkoro averages can't show:
We read public map data around Neshkoro — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Neshkoro average
How we know this about Neshkoro
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 Neshkoro’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 Neshkoro
When does frost risk typically end in Neshkoro?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Neshkoro 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 Neshkoro?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Neshkoro 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 178 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Neshkoro?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Neshkoro sees about 178 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Oct 1, about 143 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Neshkoro?
The federal record around Neshkoro shows 198 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (150), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Neshkoro?
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 Neshkoro's scale — its 5a band and its 178-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Neshkoro'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 Neshkoro’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Neshkoro's own scale — its own ~178-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,288 acres it covers and 198 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Neshkoro's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Neshkoro's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Oct 15 and the ~178-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 198 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Neshkoro, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Neshkoro's boundary and the 1,288 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~178-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Neshkoro's own centroid, the North Central Hardwood ForestsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Neshkorolydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Neshkoro's 1,288 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marquette County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marquette 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 Marquette County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Neshkoro's 1,288 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Neshkoro you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,288 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Neshkoro-wide figureread your own land →