Center, MO 63436 Frost Dates
63436, near Center, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 Center, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Center'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 Center's last frost
04/12 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 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Center against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Center places 21,274 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 775 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63436: the frost range, on how to read the range around Center's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Center can differ from the 63436 normal.