Blodgett, MO 63824 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Blodgett, MO, ZIP 63824
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/06, about 225 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Blodgett, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Blodgett has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Blodgett's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/08 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Blodgett compares
About 225 days separate Blodgett's last and first frost, putting it 11,484 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 20 of 1,129.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Blodgett's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Blodgett can differ from the 63824 normal.