Lake Tekakwitha, MO 63072 Frost Dates
63072, near Lake Tekakwitha, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 194 days after the last spring frost.
Lake Tekakwitha 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
Lake Tekakwitha's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/11 isn't a guarantee
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Tekakwitha against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 194 frost-free days, Lake Tekakwitha places 19,621 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 653 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63072: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake Tekakwitha can differ from the 63072 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Lake Tekakwitha's frost date answer different questions.