Davis City, IA 50065 Frost Dates
50065, near Davis City, IA: the frost window
Around 04/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 231 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 186 days after the last spring frost.
Davis City sits in USDA Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Davis City's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Davis City's last frost
04/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Davis City against the rest of the dataset
Davis City's growing season runs about 186 days, ranking 22,958 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IA, it ranks 30 of 1,042.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 50065: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Davis City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Davis City's dates instead of trusting one.