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Pagedale, MO 63133 Frost Dates

Pagedale, MO: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. 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 Pagedale 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 Pagedale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Pagedale'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.

Pagedale against the rest of the dataset

About 218 days separate Pagedale's last and first frost, putting it 13,276 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 88 of 1,129.

Learn more

Before leaning on 63133's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Pagedale's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pagedale's dates instead of trusting one.