Davenport, IA 52802 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Davenport, IA?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/24, about 239 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/18, about 176 frost-free days later.
Zone 5b (-15 to -10°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 Davenport, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 7 weeks of growing season left in Davenport before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Davenport's last frost
04/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Davenport compares
At roughly 176 frost-free days, Davenport places 26,330 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within IA, it ranks 129 of 1,042.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Davenport's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Davenport can differ from the 52802 normal.