Hurdland, MO 63547 Frost Dates
63547, near Hurdland, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Hurdland 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
Hurdland's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hurdland against the rest of the dataset
About 180 days separate Hurdland's last and first frost, putting it 25,097 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 1,029 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63547: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hurdland can differ from the 63547 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Hurdland's frost date answer different questions.