Canalou, MO 63828 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Canalou, MO, ZIP 63828
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 Canalou, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Canalou 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 Canalou'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 Canalou compares
At roughly 225 frost-free days, Canalou places 11,509 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 23 of 1,129.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Canalou's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Canalou's dates instead of trusting one.