Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO 63138 Frost Dates
63138, near Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bellefontaine Neighbors 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
Bellefontaine Neighbors's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Bellefontaine Neighbors's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bellefontaine Neighbors against the rest of the dataset
Bellefontaine Neighbors's growing season runs about 214 days, ranking 14,235 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 137 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63138: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bellefontaine Neighbors's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bellefontaine Neighbors can differ from the 63138 normal.