Wardell, MO 63879 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Wardell, MO, ZIP 63879
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/07, about 227 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 Wardell, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Wardell 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 Wardell's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/07 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 Wardell compares
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Wardell places 11,064 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 12 of 1,129.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Wardell's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Wardell's dates instead of trusting one.