Strawberry Point, IA 52076 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Strawberry Point, IA, ZIP 52076
Around 05/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 253 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/01, about 146 frost-free days later.
Strawberry Point sits in USDA Zone 4b (-25 to -20°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 4b around Strawberry Point 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 Strawberry Point's last frost
05/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Strawberry Point compares
At roughly 146 frost-free days, Strawberry Point places 36,066 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IA, it ranks 1,032 of 1,042.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Strawberry Point's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Strawberry Point can differ from the 52076 normal.