Stetsonville, Wisconsin, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Stetsonville, 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 Stetsonville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Stetsonville — the short answer
Stetsonville, Wisconsin: USDA zone 4b, about 165 days between hard freezes, across 255 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~165
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 255 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 Stetsonville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Stetsonville's 165-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Stetsonville
Each reading below is measured for Stetsonville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStetsonville runs about 165 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
MeasuredStetsonville 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 Stetsonville is in
Stetsonville sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Stetsonville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Taylor County is mostly Northern Lakes and Forests. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Stetsonville
Every plant below cleared Stetsonville's own zone 4b and its 165-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Stetsonville?
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 Mar 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 10 — 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 Stetsonville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Stetsonville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- IVAN BOOTZINUnderground Storage Tanks · 75 ft
- RAY METZUnderground Storage Tanks · 75 ft
- Stetsonville Oil Co IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- Jacks Auto ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Stetson Hardwoods IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- Wolf Brothers SawmillUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- NIEMUTH IMPLEMENT CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- EDS SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- OLSON & GOODMAN INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- FARMERS UNION CO-OP TRANSPORTBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- Co Op TransportUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Town Of Deer CreekUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Stetsonville'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 Stetsonville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Stetsonville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Stetsonville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Stetsonville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Stetsonville — CAFO (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (186 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 Stetsonville
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 Stetsonville
Everything above resolves to Stetsonville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 255 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 Stetsonville Average
Stetsonville Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Stetsonville
- ●One soil character for all of Stetsonville
- ●Frost dates read at Stetsonville's scale: Apr 28 to Oct 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Stetsonville's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Stetsonville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Stetsonville, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Stetsonville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Stetsonville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Stetsonville
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 Stetsonville’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 Stetsonville
When does frost risk typically end in Stetsonville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Stetsonville typically lands around Apr 28, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Stetsonville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Stetsonville typically arrives around Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 26, so the watching starts about Sep 10 — about 165 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Stetsonville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Stetsonville sees about 165 frost-free days — roughly Apr 28 through Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 19 to Sep 26, about 130 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Stetsonville?
The federal record around Stetsonville is a meaningful one — 265 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (186), 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 Stetsonville?
From about Sep 10 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Stetsonville's scale — its 4b band and its 165-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Stetsonville'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 Stetsonville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Stetsonville's own scale — its own ~165-day season between 28°F freezes, the 255 acres it covers and 265 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Stetsonville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Stetsonville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 28 and Oct 10 and the ~165-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 265 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Stetsonville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Stetsonville's boundary and the 255 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~165-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Stetsonville sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Stetsonville's 255 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Taylor County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Taylor 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 Taylor County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Stetsonville's 255 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Stetsonville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 255 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 Stetsonville-wide figureread your own land →
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