Morley, MO 63767 Frost Dates
63767, near Morley, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
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 Morley, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Morley's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Morley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 225 frost-free days, Morley places 11,458 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 18 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63767: the frost range, on how to read the range around Morley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Morley can differ from the 63767 normal.