Advance, MO 63738 Frost Dates
63738, near Advance, MO: the frost window
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Advance in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Advance's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Advance's last frost
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.
Advance against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Advance's last and first frost, putting it 16,662 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 295 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63738: the frost range, on how to read the range around Advance's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Advance can differ from the 63738 normal.