Wilson City, MO 63882 Frost Dates
Wilson City, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 211 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 Wilson City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Wilson City'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
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wilson City against the rest of the dataset
About 211 days separate Wilson City's last and first frost, putting it 14,911 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 175 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63882's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Wilson City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Wilson City's dates instead of trusting one.