New Lisbon, Wisconsin, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in New Lisbon, 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 New Lisbon lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Lisbon — the short answer
New Lisbon, Wisconsin: USDA zone 4b, about 167 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~167
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 2K 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 New Lisbon's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Lisbon's 167-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Lisbon
Each reading below is measured for New Lisbon itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Lisbon runs about 167 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
MeasuredNew Lisbon 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 New Lisbon is in
New Lisbon sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Lisbon's own centroid rather than borrowed from Juneau County.
What Grows in New Lisbon
Every plant below cleared New Lisbon's own zone 4b and its 167-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Lisbon?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 30; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 11 — 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 New Lisbon
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Lisbon. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- F M REED LUMBER COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- WDOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Triangle Mini MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Flower StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- FULTONS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- New Lisbon Water And LightUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- JUNEAU CO HWY DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- ARTHUR VOEGTSEKEEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- RONS STANDARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- TOWN OF LISBON SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Kwik Trip #836Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #17126Brownfields · 1900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Lisbon'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 New Lisbon.
Total Sites
208
within ~10 miles of New Lisbon
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Lisbon
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Lisbon
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Lisbon, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of New Lisbon — Underground Storage Tanks (141 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (14 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in New Lisbon
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside New Lisbon
Everything above resolves to New Lisbon as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 city 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 New Lisbon Average
New Lisbon Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across New Lisbon
- ●One soil character for all of New Lisbon
- ●Frost dates read at New Lisbon's scale: Apr 27 to Oct 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Lisbon's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Lisbon
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Lisbon, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Lisbon averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Lisbon — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Lisbon average
How we know this about New Lisbon
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at New Lisbon’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 New Lisbon
When does frost risk typically end in New Lisbon?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Lisbon typically lands around Apr 27, 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 18.
When is the first frost in New Lisbon?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Lisbon typically arrives around Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 27, so the watching starts about Sep 11 — about 167 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Lisbon?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Lisbon sees about 167 frost-free days — roughly Apr 27 through Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 18 to Sep 27, about 132 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Lisbon?
The federal record around New Lisbon is a meaningful one — 208 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (141), 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 New Lisbon?
From about Sep 11 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Lisbon's scale — its 4b band and its 167-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Lisbon'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 New Lisbon’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at New Lisbon's own scale — its own ~167-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,818 acres it covers and 208 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Lisbon's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Lisbon's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 27 and Oct 11 and the ~167-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 208 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Lisbon, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Lisbon's boundary and the 1,818 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~167-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Lisbon'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 New Lisbon's 1,818 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Juneau County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Juneau 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 Juneau County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Lisbon's 1,818 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Lisbon you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,818 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 New Lisbon-wide figureread your own land →
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