Westwood, MO 63006 Frost Dates
Westwood, MO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Westwood sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Westwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Westwood against the rest of the dataset
About 206 days separate Westwood's last and first frost, putting it 16,116 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 234 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63006's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Westwood's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Westwood can differ from the 63006 normal.