Lake Tapawingo, MO 64148 Frost Dates
64148, near Lake Tapawingo, MO: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lake Tapawingo in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
Lake Tapawingo'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.
Lake Tapawingo against the rest of the dataset
Lake Tapawingo's growing season runs about 198 days, ranking 18,476 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 493 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64148: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Lake Tapawingo's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lake Tapawingo's dates instead of trusting one.