Pine Lawn, MO 63120 Frost Dates
Pine Lawn, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pine Lawn in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 10 weeks until Pine Lawn's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pine Lawn's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pine Lawn against the rest of the dataset
About 218 days separate Pine Lawn's last and first frost, putting it 13,274 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 86 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63120's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pine Lawn can differ from the 63120 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Pine Lawn's frost date answer different questions.