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Bragg City, MO 63827 Frost Dates

63827, near Bragg City, MO: the frost window

Zone 7b

Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bragg City in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Bragg City's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

Why 03/31 isn't a guarantee

03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Bragg City against the rest of the dataset

About 215 days separate Bragg City's last and first frost, putting it 14,205 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 134 of 1,129.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 63827: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bragg City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bragg City can differ from the 63827 normal.