Laddonia, MO 63352 Frost Dates
63352, near Laddonia, 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 192 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Laddonia, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Laddonia'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.
The actual range around Laddonia's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Laddonia against the rest of the dataset
Laddonia's growing season runs about 192 days, ranking 20,521 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 702 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63352: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Laddonia's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Laddonia's dates instead of trusting one.