Weyerhaeuser, Wisconsin, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Weyerhaeuser, 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 Weyerhaeuser lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Weyerhaeuser — the short answer
Weyerhaeuser, Wisconsin: USDA zone 4a, about 160 days between hard freezes, across 599 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 1
- 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
- ~160
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 599 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 4a is Weyerhaeuser's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Weyerhaeuser's 160-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Weyerhaeuser
Each reading below is measured for Weyerhaeuser itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWeyerhaeuser runs about 160 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
MeasuredWeyerhaeuser sits in USDA hardiness zone 4a.
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 Weyerhaeuser is in
Weyerhaeuser sits in the Northern Lakes and Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Weyerhaeuser's own centroid rather than borrowed from Rusk County.
What Grows in Weyerhaeuser
Every plant below cleared Weyerhaeuser's own zone 4a and its 160-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wisconsin profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Weyerhaeuser?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 1 (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. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Weyerhaeuser
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Weyerhaeuser. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BENIKS SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- WEYERHAEUSER EQUITY CO OPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- KRAMER WELL DRILLING INCBrownfields · 1200 ft
- WEYERHAEUSER PUBLIC SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Antczaks Pleasant Ridge FarmsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Eden Ministries IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- JOE GARBACZ EXCAVATINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- L & N MANUFACTURING INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- TONYS PLACEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- The CastawayUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Albert StyczynskiUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- BENIKS AUTO SERVBrownfields · 1500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Weyerhaeuser'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 Weyerhaeuser.
Total Sites
75
within ~10 miles of Weyerhaeuser
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Weyerhaeuser
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Weyerhaeuser
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Weyerhaeuser, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 50 sites within ~10 miles of Weyerhaeuser. 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 Weyerhaeuser
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 Weyerhaeuser average
Your land is one point inside Weyerhaeuser
Everything above resolves to Weyerhaeuser as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 599 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 Weyerhaeuser Average
Weyerhaeuser Average
- ●USDA Zones 4a, averaged across Weyerhaeuser
- ●One soil character for all of Weyerhaeuser
- ●Frost dates read at Weyerhaeuser's scale: May 1 to Oct 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Weyerhaeuser's 4a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Weyerhaeuser
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Weyerhaeuser, Wisconsin — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Weyerhaeuser averages can't show:
We read public map data around Weyerhaeuser — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Weyerhaeuser average
How we know this about Weyerhaeuser
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 Weyerhaeuser’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 Weyerhaeuser
When does frost risk typically end in Weyerhaeuser?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Weyerhaeuser typically lands around May 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Weyerhaeuser?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Weyerhaeuser 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 160 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Weyerhaeuser?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Weyerhaeuser sees about 160 frost-free days — roughly May 1 through Oct 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 22 to Sep 24, about 125 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Weyerhaeuser?
The federal record around Weyerhaeuser shows 75 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (50), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles 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 Weyerhaeuser?
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 Weyerhaeuser's scale — its 4a band and its 160-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Weyerhaeuser'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 Weyerhaeuser’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Weyerhaeuser's own scale — its own ~160-day season between 28°F freezes, the 599 acres it covers and 75 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Weyerhaeuser's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Weyerhaeuser's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 1 and Oct 8 and the ~160-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 75 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Weyerhaeuser, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Weyerhaeuser's boundary and the 599 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4a and a ~160-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Weyerhaeuser'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 Weyerhaeuser's 599 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Rusk County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Rusk 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 Rusk County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Weyerhaeuser's 599 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Weyerhaeuser you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 599 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Weyerhaeuser-wide figureread your own land →
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