Fisk, MO 63940 Frost Dates
63940, near Fisk, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 214 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 Fisk, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fisk's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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 03/15 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.
Fisk against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 214 frost-free days, Fisk places 14,364 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 141 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63940: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fisk can differ from the 63940 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Fisk's frost date answer different questions.