Frankford, MO 63441 Frost Dates
Frankford, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 212 days after the last spring frost.
Frankford sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°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 10 weeks until Frankford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Frankford's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 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.
Frankford against the rest of the dataset
Frankford's growing season runs about 212 days, ranking 14,669 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 147 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63441's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Frankford's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Frankford can differ from the 63441 normal.