Perryville, MO 63776 Frost Dates
63776, near Perryville, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/19, about 234 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Perryville sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Perryville's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Perryville's last frost
04/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Perryville against the rest of the dataset
Perryville's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,107 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 969 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63776: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Perryville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Perryville's dates instead of trusting one.