Dardenne Prairie, MO 63341 Frost Dates
Dardenne Prairie, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
Dardenne Prairie 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 Dardenne Prairie's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Dardenne Prairie's last frost
04/10 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 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dardenne Prairie against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 199 frost-free days, Dardenne Prairie places 18,049 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 418 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63341's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Dardenne Prairie can differ from the 63341 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Dardenne Prairie's frost date answer different questions.