Waverly, MO 64096 Frost Dates
Waverly, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 207 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 Waverly, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Waverly's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waverly against the rest of the dataset
About 207 days separate Waverly's last and first frost, putting it 15,857 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 205 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64096's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Waverly's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Waverly can differ from the 64096 normal.