Van Buren, MO 63941 Frost Dates
Van Buren, MO: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/18, roughly 176 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Van Buren, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Van Buren'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
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Van Buren against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 176 frost-free days, Van Buren places 26,572 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 1,061 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 63941's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Van Buren's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Van Buren can differ from the 63941 normal.