Cooter, MO 38030 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cooter, MO, ZIP 38030
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/02, about 221 frost-free days later.
Cooter sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 8a around Cooter has about 9 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 Cooter's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cooter compares
Cooter's growing season runs about 221 days, ranking 12,586 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 38 of 1,129.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Cooter's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Cooter can differ from the 38030 normal.