Reeseville, Wisconsin, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — 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, lavender, 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 Reeseville, 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 Reeseville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Reeseville — the short answer
Reeseville, Wisconsin: USDA zone 5b, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 400 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~192
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 400 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 5b is Reeseville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Reeseville's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Reeseville
Each reading below is measured for Reeseville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredReeseville runs about 192 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
MeasuredReeseville sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Reeseville is in
Reeseville sits in the Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Reeseville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Dodge County.
What Grows in Reeseville
Every plant below cleared Reeseville's own zone 5b and its 192-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Reeseville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 21 — 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.
Documented around Reeseville
Spotted lanternfly documented 23 miles from Reeseville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Reeseville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Reeseville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RALPH KALSCHEURUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- SOO LINE RAILROADUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- Clarence SchmidtUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- LARRY RICHARDSUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- DODGELAND TRANSPORTATION INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- George ClarkUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- Paul LinkUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- LARRY FOERSTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- FRANK LAUERSDORFUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- CAINE WAREHOUSINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- C KUEHL FOR SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- Sams AmocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Reeseville'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 Reeseville.
Total Sites
381
within ~10 miles of Reeseville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Reeseville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Reeseville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Reeseville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Reeseville — Superfund (5 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (234 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Reeseville
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 Reeseville average
Your land is one point inside Reeseville
Everything above resolves to Reeseville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 400 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 Reeseville Average
Reeseville Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Reeseville
- ●One soil character for all of Reeseville
- ●Frost dates read at Reeseville's scale: Apr 12 to Oct 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Reeseville's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Reeseville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Reeseville, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Reeseville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Reeseville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Reeseville average
How we know this about Reeseville
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 Reeseville’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 Reeseville
When does frost risk typically end in Reeseville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Reeseville typically lands around Apr 12, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Reeseville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Reeseville typically arrives around Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 7, so the watching starts about Sep 21 — about 192 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Reeseville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Reeseville sees about 192 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 7, about 157 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Reeseville?
The federal record around Reeseville is a meaningful one — 381 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (234), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Reeseville?
From about Sep 21 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Reeseville's scale — its 5b band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Reeseville'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 Reeseville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Reeseville's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 400 acres it covers and 381 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Reeseville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Reeseville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Oct 21 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 381 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Reeseville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Reeseville's boundary and the 400 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~192-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Reeseville's own centroid, the Southeastern Wisconsin Till PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Reesevillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Reeseville's 400 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dodge County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dodge 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 Dodge County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Reeseville's 400 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Reeseville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 400 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Reeseville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across WisconsinReeseville sits outside our named growing regions, so Wisconsin as a whole is its closest context here.