Sedgewickville, MO 63662 Frost Dates
Sedgewickville, MO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 193 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sedgewickville 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Sedgewickville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sedgewickville's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 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.
Sedgewickville against the rest of the dataset
About 193 days separate Sedgewickville's last and first frost, putting it 20,077 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 684 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63662's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sedgewickville can differ from the 63662 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Sedgewickville's frost date answer different questions.