Desloge, MO 63601 Frost Dates
63601, near Desloge, MO: the frost window
Around 04/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 228 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 191 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Desloge in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Desloge'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 Desloge's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Desloge against the rest of the dataset
About 191 days separate Desloge's last and first frost, putting it 20,765 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 727 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63601: the frost range, on how to read the range around Desloge's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Desloge can differ from the 63601 normal.