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[Leonidas]

IIRC the wiki mentions something about dwarves freezing to death from being out in the cold.  How big a danger is that?  I just built some open-air plots, and was pleased to see how many of those crops are plantable year-round.  But I don't want my farmers losing fingers to frostbite.  Does freezing to death happen pretty fast, or does it hit only if they've been out there for a while?

[Warlord255]

I've played on multiple glaciers and freezing mountains. I have never had anyone freeze to death.

[Skid]

I've only ever had one dwarf freeze to death, and that wall on a custom design world with all the temperatures way down.

I don't think there is any significant danger of it in maps from a standard worldgen.

[FluffyToast J]

I've had a dwarf freeze to death. It was on a glacier, and he was about to be mauled by a polar bear, but he froze instead. It was about then that I got everyone indoors and started making weapons. And more clothes.

[Neonivek]

For the most part clothes in Dwarf Fortress, probably temporary, are amazing insulators and only against near supernaturally cold temperatures do dwarves freeze with them. (of course without clothes they freeze to death in some relatively cold weather)

So with exception to Arctic places, and even then it takes a very fridged locale, your dwarves are going to be perfectly fine. The Thin layers of reed will save them as if it was a high-tech enviromental suit made out of flamable materials.

[Pilsu]

They're not that thin. Cold regions usually let you make coats and other much thicker (armorwise too!) clothing