River Bend, MO 64058 Frost Dates
River Bend, MO: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
River Bend sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 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
With roughly 9 weeks until River Bend's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around River Bend's last frost
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.
River Bend against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 198 frost-free days, River Bend places 18,568 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 530 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64058's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around River Bend's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in River Bend can differ from the 64058 normal.