Stacyville, IA 50454 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Stacyville, IA?
Around 04/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 245 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/09, about 163 frost-free days later.
Zone 5a (-20 to -15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Stacyville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 6 weeks of growing season left in Stacyville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Stacyville's last frost
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Stacyville compares
At roughly 163 frost-free days, Stacyville places 31,517 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IA, it ranks 675 of 1,042.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 5a and Stacyville's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Stacyville's dates instead of trusting one.