Moville, IA 51039 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Moville, IA, ZIP 51039
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/29, roughly 244 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/05, about 159 frost-free days later.
Moville sits in USDA Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 5a around Moville has about 5 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Moville's last frost
04/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Moville compares
About 159 days separate Moville's last and first frost, putting it 32,680 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IA, it ranks 782 of 1,042.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Moville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Moville can differ from the 51039 normal.