Whitewater, MO 63760 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Whitewater, MO?
Around 04/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 227 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/23, about 193 frost-free days later.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Whitewater, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 8 weeks of growing season left in Whitewater before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Whitewater's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Whitewater compares
At roughly 193 frost-free days, Whitewater places 20,091 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 688 of 1,129.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Whitewater's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Whitewater can differ from the 63760 normal.