Advance, MO 63787 Frost Dates
Advance, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 222 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 204 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 Advance, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Advance's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Advance against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Advance places 16,664 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 297 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63787's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Advance's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Advance can differ from the 63787 normal.