Dixon, IA 52745 Frost Dates
52745, near Dixon, IA: the frost window
Around 04/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 242 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/10, roughly 165 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dixon in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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
Dixon'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 Dixon's last frost
04/27 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 05/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dixon against the rest of the dataset
Dixon's growing season runs about 165 days, ranking 30,757 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within IA, it ranks 554 of 1,042.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 52745: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 5b and Dixon's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Dixon's dates instead of trusting one.