Puxico, MO 63960 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Puxico, MO?
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/02, about 215 frost-free days later.
Puxico 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Puxico before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Puxico's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Puxico compares
At roughly 215 frost-free days, Puxico places 14,145 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 123 of 1,129.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Puxico's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Puxico can differ from the 63960 normal.