Centerville, MO 63654 Frost Dates
63654, near Centerville, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
Centerville sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Centerville'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.
Why 04/09 isn't a guarantee
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Centerville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 199 frost-free days, Centerville places 18,227 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 459 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63654: local microclimates, on what one yard in Centerville can differ from the 63654 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Centerville's frost date answer different questions.