Kimmswick, MO 63052 Frost Dates
Kimmswick, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 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 Kimmswick, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Kimmswick'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.
Kimmswick against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Kimmswick places 18,852 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 565 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63052's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Kimmswick can differ from the 63052 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Kimmswick's frost date answer different questions.