Lohrville, IA 51453 Frost Dates
51453, near Lohrville, IA: the frost window
Around 04/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 241 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 167 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lohrville in Zone 5a (-20 to -15°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
Lohrville'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 Lohrville'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 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lohrville against the rest of the dataset
About 167 days separate Lohrville's last and first frost, putting it 30,165 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IA, it ranks 427 of 1,042.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 51453: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lohrville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lohrville can differ from the 51453 normal.