Commerce, MO 62969 Frost Dates
62969, near Commerce, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 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 Commerce, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Commerce's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Commerce against the rest of the dataset
About 211 days separate Commerce's last and first frost, putting it 14,915 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 176 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 62969: the frost range, on how to read the range around Commerce's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Commerce can differ from the 62969 normal.