Paac Ciinak, 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.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Paac Ciinak, 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 Paac Ciinak lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Paac Ciinak — the short answer
Paac Ciinak, Wisconsin: USDA zone 4b, about 158 days between hard freezes, across 640 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 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~158
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 640 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 Paac Ciinak's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Paac Ciinak's 158-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Paac Ciinak
Each reading below is measured for Paac Ciinak itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPaac Ciinak runs about 158 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
MeasuredPaac Ciinak 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 Paac Ciinak is in
Paac Ciinak sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Paac Ciinak's own centroid rather than borrowed from Shawano County.
What Grows in Paac Ciinak
Every plant below cleared Paac Ciinak's own zone 4b and its 158-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Paac Ciinak?
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 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 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Paac Ciinak
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Paac Ciinak. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Ho Chunk North Convenience StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SHAWANO COUNTY HWY DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- HOMME YOUTH & FAMILY PROGRAMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- ASPIRUS WITTENBERG CLINICBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- FENENS TAPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- AT&T RADIO RELAY FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- Wittenberg Shell McDonaldsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- AMPI-MORNING GLORY FARMSToxics Release Inventory · 2.0 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #13790Brownfields · 2.1 mi
- Wittenberg Shell & Food MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- WITTENBERG SERVICE CENTERBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- WITTENBERG FORD MERCURY SERVICE INCBrownfields · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Paac Ciinak'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 Paac Ciinak.
Total Sites
249
within ~10 miles of Paac Ciinak
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Paac Ciinak
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Paac Ciinak
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Paac Ciinak, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Paac Ciinak — CAFO (4 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (196 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Paac Ciinak
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 Paac Ciinak average
Your land is one point inside Paac Ciinak
Everything above resolves to Paac Ciinak as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 640 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 Paac Ciinak Average
Paac Ciinak Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Paac Ciinak
- ●One soil character for all of Paac Ciinak
- ●Frost dates read at Paac Ciinak's scale: May 4 to Oct 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Paac Ciinak's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Paac Ciinak
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Paac Ciinak, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Paac Ciinak averages can't show:
We read public map data around Paac Ciinak — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Paac Ciinak average
How we know this about Paac Ciinak
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 Paac Ciinak’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 Paac Ciinak
When does frost risk typically end in Paac Ciinak?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Paac Ciinak 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 Paac Ciinak?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Paac Ciinak typically arrives around Oct 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 25, so the watching starts about Sep 9 — about 158 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Paac Ciinak?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Paac Ciinak sees about 158 frost-free days — roughly May 4 through Oct 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 25 to Sep 25, about 123 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Paac Ciinak?
The federal record around Paac Ciinak is a meaningful one — 249 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (196), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Paac Ciinak?
From about Sep 9 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Paac Ciinak's scale — its 4b band and its 158-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Paac Ciinak'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 Paac Ciinak’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Paac Ciinak's own scale — its own ~158-day season between 28°F freezes, the 640 acres it covers and 249 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Paac Ciinak's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Paac Ciinak's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 4 and Oct 9 and the ~158-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 249 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Paac Ciinak, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Paac Ciinak's boundary and the 640 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~158-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Paac Ciinak'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 Paac Ciinak's 640 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Shawano County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Shawano 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 Shawano County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Paac Ciinak's 640 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Paac Ciinak you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 640 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 Paac Ciinak-wide figureread your own land →
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