Wausaukee, 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.
On paper, cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Wausaukee, 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 Wausaukee lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Wausaukee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Wausaukee — the short answer
Wausaukee, Wisconsin: USDA zone 4b, about 152 days between hard freezes, across 881 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~152
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 881 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 Wausaukee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wausaukee's 152-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wausaukee
Each reading below is measured for Wausaukee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWausaukee runs about 152 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
MeasuredWausaukee 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 Wausaukee is in
Wausaukee sits in the Northern Lakes and Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Wausaukee's own centroid rather than borrowed from Marinette County.
What Grows in Wausaukee
Every plant below cleared Wausaukee's own zone 4b and its 152-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wausaukee?
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 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 8 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Wausaukee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wausaukee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WISCONSIN PUBLIC SERVICE - WAUSAUKEE SERVICE CNTRBrownfields · 250 ft
- ROGERS 66 SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL #22348Brownfields · 250 ft
- Wisconsin Public Service CorpUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- WAUSAUKEE TOWN GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- WISCONSIN PUBLIC SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Amoco PlusUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- D & D OF MARINETTE WI INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- A & M HEATINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Wausaukee Mini MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #9409Brownfields · 1200 ft
- RASTIA ZEPHYR SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wausaukee'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 Wausaukee.
Total Sites
82
within ~10 miles of Wausaukee
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wausaukee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wausaukee
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wausaukee, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 65 sites within ~10 miles of Wausaukee. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Wausaukee
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 Wausaukee average
Your land is one point inside Wausaukee
Everything above resolves to Wausaukee as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 881 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 Wausaukee Average
Wausaukee Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Wausaukee
- ●One soil character for all of Wausaukee
- ●Frost dates read at Wausaukee's scale: May 9 to Oct 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wausaukee's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wausaukee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wausaukee, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wausaukee averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wausaukee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wausaukee average
How we know this about Wausaukee
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 Wausaukee’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 Wausaukee
When does frost risk typically end in Wausaukee?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wausaukee typically lands around May 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Wausaukee?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wausaukee typically arrives around Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 24, so the watching starts about Sep 8 — about 152 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wausaukee?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wausaukee sees about 152 frost-free days — roughly May 9 through Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 30 to Sep 24, about 117 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wausaukee?
The federal record around Wausaukee shows 82 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (65), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Wausaukee?
From about Sep 8 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wausaukee's scale — its 4b band and its 152-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wausaukee'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 Wausaukee’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Wausaukee's own scale — its own ~152-day season between 28°F freezes, the 881 acres it covers and 82 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wausaukee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wausaukee's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 9 and Oct 8 and the ~152-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 82 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wausaukee, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wausaukee's boundary and the 881 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~152-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Wausaukee'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 Wausaukee's 881 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marinette County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marinette 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 Marinette County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wausaukee's 881 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wausaukee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 881 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Wausaukee-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across WisconsinWausaukee sits outside our named growing regions, so Wisconsin as a whole is its closest context here.