Weyauwega, Wisconsin, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Weyauwega, 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 Weyauwega lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Weyauwega — the short answer
Weyauwega, Wisconsin: USDA zone 5a, about 188 days between hard freezes, across 983 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- 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
- ~188
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 983 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 5a is Weyauwega's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Weyauwega's 188-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Weyauwega
Each reading below is measured for Weyauwega itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWeyauwega runs about 188 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
MeasuredWeyauwega sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
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 Weyauwega is in
Weyauwega sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Weyauwega's own centroid rather than borrowed from Waupaca County.
What Grows in Weyauwega
Every plant below cleared Weyauwega's own zone 5a and its 188-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Weyauwega?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (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. 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 Weyauwega
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Weyauwega. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PETERSON PETROLEUM PRODUCTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- CLARK IMPLEMENT COUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- WIESMAN MOTORS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- Bob WintersUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- OAK CREEK FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- Gene GuthUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- FRED RAETHERUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- Melvin T LacockUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- GILLS LANDING HOTELUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- HOOTS SALOONUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- James A JohnsonUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- CHARLES JOHNSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Weyauwega'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 Weyauwega.
Total Sites
324
within ~10 miles of Weyauwega
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Weyauwega
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Weyauwega
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Weyauwega, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 234 sites within ~10 miles of Weyauwega. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Weyauwega
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 Weyauwega average
Your land is one point inside Weyauwega
Everything above resolves to Weyauwega as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 983 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 Weyauwega Average
Weyauwega Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Weyauwega
- ●One soil character for all of Weyauwega
- ●Frost dates read at Weyauwega's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Weyauwega's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Weyauwega
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Weyauwega, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Weyauwega averages can't show:
We read public map data around Weyauwega — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Weyauwega average
How we know this about Weyauwega
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 Weyauwega’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 Weyauwega
When does frost risk typically end in Weyauwega?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Weyauwega typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Weyauwega?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Weyauwega 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 188 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Weyauwega?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Weyauwega sees about 188 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 7, about 153 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Weyauwega?
The federal record around Weyauwega is a meaningful one — 324 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 Weyauwega?
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 Weyauwega's scale — its 5a band and its 188-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Weyauwega'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 Weyauwega’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Weyauwega's own scale — its own ~188-day season between 28°F freezes, the 983 acres it covers and 324 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Weyauwega's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Weyauwega's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 21 and the ~188-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 324 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Weyauwega, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Weyauwega's boundary and the 983 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~188-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Weyauwega'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 Weyauwega's 983 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Waupaca County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Waupaca 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 Waupaca County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Weyauwega's 983 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Weyauwega you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 983 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 Weyauwega-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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