Van Buren, MO 63965 Frost Dates
63965, near Van Buren, MO: the frost window
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 199 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
Van Buren'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
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Van Buren against the rest of the dataset
Van Buren's growing season runs about 199 days, ranking 18,169 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 439 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 63965: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Van Buren's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Van Buren's dates instead of trusting one.