Pacific, MO 63069 Frost Dates
Pacific, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
Pacific sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 8 weeks until Pacific's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pacific's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pacific against the rest of the dataset
About 193 days separate Pacific's last and first frost, putting it 19,829 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 668 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63069's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pacific's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pacific can differ from the 63069 normal.