Gideon, MO 63848 Frost Dates
63848, near Gideon, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
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 Gideon, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gideon'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.
Why 03/25 isn't a guarantee
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gideon against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Gideon places 11,049 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 8 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63848: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gideon's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gideon can differ from the 63848 normal.