Greenville, MO 63951 Frost Dates
63951, near Greenville, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
Greenville 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
Greenville'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
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Greenville against the rest of the dataset
About 215 days separate Greenville's last and first frost, putting it 14,182 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 131 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63951: the frost range, on how to read the range around Greenville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Greenville can differ from the 63951 normal.