Puxico, MO 63763 Frost Dates
Puxico, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Puxico 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Puxico's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Puxico's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Puxico against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 215 frost-free days, Puxico places 14,144 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 122 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63763's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Puxico's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Puxico's dates instead of trusting one.