Pevely, MO 63012 Frost Dates
Pevely, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pevely in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
With roughly 8 weeks until Pevely's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pevely against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Pevely places 18,662 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 537 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63012's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pevely's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pevely can differ from the 63012 normal.