Ellsinore, MO 63937 Frost Dates
63937, near Ellsinore, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 199 days after the last spring frost.
Ellsinore sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Ellsinore'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 Ellsinore's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ellsinore against the rest of the dataset
Ellsinore's growing season runs about 199 days, ranking 18,197 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 449 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63937: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ellsinore's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ellsinore can differ from the 63937 normal.