Huxley, IA 50124 Frost Dates
50124, near Huxley, IA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/26, roughly 241 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/12, roughly 168 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Huxley in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Huxley's growing season runs out in roughly 6 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 Huxley's last frost
04/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Huxley against the rest of the dataset
Huxley's growing season runs about 168 days, ranking 29,707 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IA, it ranks 372 of 1,042.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 50124: local microclimates, on what one yard in Huxley can differ from the 50124 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Huxley's frost date answer different questions.