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Sedgewickville, MO 63781 Frost Dates

Sedgewickville, MO: when does the frost end?

Zone 6b

Around 04/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 234 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Sedgewickville, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 8 weeks until Sedgewickville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Sedgewickville'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.

Sedgewickville against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 182 frost-free days, Sedgewickville places 24,340 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 978 of 1,129.

Learn more

Before leaning on 63781's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sedgewickville can differ from the 63781 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Sedgewickville's frost date answer different questions.