Sheboygan Falls, 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.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Sheboygan Falls, 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 Sheboygan Falls lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Sheboygan Falls — the short answer
Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin: USDA zone 5b, about 190 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~190
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 4K 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 Sheboygan Falls's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sheboygan Falls's 190-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sheboygan Falls
Each reading below is measured for Sheboygan Falls itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSheboygan Falls runs about 190 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
MeasuredSheboygan Falls 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 Sheboygan Falls is in
Sheboygan Falls sits in the Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sheboygan Falls's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sheboygan County.
What Grows in Sheboygan Falls
Every plant below cleared Sheboygan Falls's own zone 5b and its 190-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sheboygan Falls?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
What's on the federal record near Sheboygan Falls
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sheboygan Falls. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BEMIS MANUFACTURINGBrownfields · 1400 ft
- BEMIS MANUFACTURINGToxics Release Inventory · 1400 ft
- Us Venture Fueling Depot #59Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- RICHARDSON J S CO INCBrownfields · 2000 ft
- AKRIGHT AUTO WRECKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- BEMIS MANUFACTURING COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- FALLS UPTOWN MOTORS INCBrownfields · 2100 ft
- RICHARDSON LUMBERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- KETTLE LAKES COOP C STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Petro Center #7Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- BOB WERNER MAZDAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CURT G JOA INCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sheboygan Falls'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 Sheboygan Falls.
Total Sites
934
within ~10 miles of Sheboygan Falls
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sheboygan Falls
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sheboygan Falls
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sheboygan Falls, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Sheboygan Falls — Toxics Release Inventory (60 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (575 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Sheboygan Falls
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 Sheboygan Falls average
Your land is one point inside Sheboygan Falls
Everything above resolves to Sheboygan Falls as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Sheboygan Falls Average
Sheboygan Falls Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Sheboygan Falls
- ●One soil character for all of Sheboygan Falls
- ●Frost dates read at Sheboygan Falls's scale: Apr 18 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sheboygan Falls's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sheboygan Falls
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sheboygan Falls averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sheboygan Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sheboygan Falls average
How we know this about Sheboygan Falls
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 Sheboygan Falls’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 Sheboygan Falls
When does frost risk typically end in Sheboygan Falls?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sheboygan Falls typically lands around Apr 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 May 9.
When is the first frost in Sheboygan Falls?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sheboygan Falls typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 190 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sheboygan Falls?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sheboygan Falls sees about 190 frost-free days — roughly Apr 18 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 9 to Oct 11, about 155 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sheboygan Falls?
The federal record around Sheboygan Falls is a meaningful one — 934 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (575), the nearest Brownfields 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 Sheboygan Falls?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sheboygan Falls's scale — its 5b band and its 190-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sheboygan Falls'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 Sheboygan Falls’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Sheboygan Falls's own scale — its own ~190-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,516 acres it covers and 934 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sheboygan Falls's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sheboygan Falls's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 18 and Oct 25 and the ~190-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 934 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sheboygan Falls, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sheboygan Falls's boundary and the 3,516 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~190-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Sheboygan Falls's own centroid, the Southeastern Wisconsin Till PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sheboygan Falls's 3,516 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sheboygan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sheboygan Falls's 3,516 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sheboygan Falls you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,516 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Sheboygan Falls-wide figureread your own land →