Buckner, MO 64016 Frost Dates
64016, near Buckner, MO: the frost window
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Buckner in Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Buckner'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.
Why 04/10 isn't a guarantee
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Buckner against the rest of the dataset
About 198 days separate Buckner's last and first frost, putting it 18,438 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 485 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64016: local microclimates, on what one yard in Buckner can differ from the 64016 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Buckner's frost date answer different questions.