Bell City, MO 63735 Frost Dates
Bell City, MO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/07, roughly 222 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Bell City sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 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 9 weeks until Bell City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bell City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Bell City places 16,721 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 308 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63735's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bell City can differ from the 63735 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bell City's frost date answer different questions.