Cooter, MO 63839 Frost Dates
63839, near Cooter, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
Cooter sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cooter's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Cooter's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cooter against the rest of the dataset
About 227 days separate Cooter's last and first frost, putting it 11,060 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 11 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63839: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cooter can differ from the 63839 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Cooter's frost date answer different questions.