Lexington, MO 64067 Frost Dates
64067, near Lexington, MO: the frost window
Around 04/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 223 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lexington 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
Lexington'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.
The actual range around Lexington's last frost
04/08 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 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lexington against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Lexington places 18,670 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 542 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64067: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lexington's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lexington can differ from the 64067 normal.