Naylor, MO 63955 Frost Dates
63955, near Naylor, MO: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Naylor 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
Naylor'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Naylor against the rest of the dataset
Naylor's growing season runs about 196 days, ranking 19,075 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 582 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63955: local microclimates, on what one yard in Naylor can differ from the 63955 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Naylor's frost date answer different questions.