Newald, Wisconsin, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, cranberry, cilantro, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Newald, 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 Newald lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Newald — the short answer
Newald, Wisconsin: USDA zone 4b, about 136 days between hard freezes, across 525 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~136
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 525 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 Newald's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Newald's 136-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Newald
Each reading below is measured for Newald itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNewald runs about 136 days between hard freezes — a short growing season.
Long-maturing crops like melons, sweet potatoes, and winter squash can run out of runway before the first hard freeze, ripening late or not at all.
Lead with fast-maturing varieties, and stretch the season on both ends with cold frames, low tunnels, or a greenhouse.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredNewald 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 Newald is in
Newald sits in the Northern Lakes and Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Newald's own centroid rather than borrowed from Forest County.
What Grows in Newald
Every plant below cleared Newald's own zone 4b and its 136-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Newald?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Short seasons reward decisiveness — quick-maturing varieties late, hardy greens under cover, and next year’s garlic in the ground before it closes.
What's on the federal record near Newald
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Newald. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CLEEREMAN INDUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- SPENCERS BAR A/K/A RITA WIDUCKI PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- FR-38/14E/26-0280Nitrate · 950 ft
- FR-38/14E/26-0276Nitrate · 1100 ft
- OLD NELSON GROCERY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- FR-38/14E/35-0283Nitrate · 2100 ft
- MICHAEL VOGELMANUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- FR-37/14E/01-0312Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- FR-37/14E/01-0870Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- NEWALD LANDFILL/NICOLET NATIONAL FORESTSuperfund · 2.2 mi
- FR-38/14E/14-0279Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- FR-38/14E/32-0016Nitrate · 3.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Newald'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 Newald.
Total Sites
61
within ~10 miles of Newald
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Newald
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Newald
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Newald, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 34 sites within ~10 miles of Newald. 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 Newald
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 Newald
Everything above resolves to Newald as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 525 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 Newald Average
Newald Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Newald
- ●One soil character for all of Newald
- ●Frost dates read at Newald's scale: May 18 to Oct 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Newald's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Newald
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Newald, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Newald — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Newald average
How we know this about Newald
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 Newald’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 Newald
When does frost risk typically end in Newald?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Newald typically lands around May 18, 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 Jun 8.
When is the first frost in Newald?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Newald typically arrives around Oct 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 17, so the watching starts about Sep 1 — about 136 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Newald?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Newald sees about 136 frost-free days — roughly May 18 through Oct 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 8 to Sep 17, about 101 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Newald?
The federal record around Newald is a meaningful one — 61 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (34), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 gardeners stretch the season in Newald?
With about 136 frost-free days between hard freezes, Newald rewards the classic extension moves: floating row cover buys roughly two to four extra weeks at each shoulder — on this season that is a working window nearer 164 to 192 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 18 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Newald's scale — its 4b band and its 136-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Newald'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 Newald’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Newald's own scale — its own ~136-day season between 28°F freezes, the 525 acres it covers and 61 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Newald's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Newald's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 18 and Oct 1 and the ~136-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 61 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Newald, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Newald's boundary and the 525 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~136-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Newald's own centroid, the Northern Lakes and ForestsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Newald's 525 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Forest County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Forest 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 Forest County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Newald's 525 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Newald you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 525 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 Newald-wide figureread your own land →
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