Rives, MO 63849 Frost Dates
Rives, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
Rives sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
With roughly 9 weeks until Rives's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Rives against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 215 frost-free days, Rives places 14,209 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 135 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63849's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Rives can differ from the 63849 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Rives's frost date answer different questions.