Doniphan, MO 63935 Frost Dates
63935, near Doniphan, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/12, about 227 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Doniphan, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Doniphan's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Doniphan's last frost
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Doniphan against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Doniphan places 19,006 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 573 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63935: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Doniphan's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Doniphan's dates instead of trusting one.