West Point, IA 52624 Frost Dates
52624, near West Point, IA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 West Point, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
West Point's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Point against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 194 frost-free days, West Point places 19,539 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IA, it ranks 5 of 1,042.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 52624: local microclimates, on what one yard in West Point can differ from the 52624 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and West Point's frost date answer different questions.