Lake Tapawingo, MO 64171 Frost Dates
64171, near Lake Tapawingo, MO: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/10, about 225 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 198 days after the last spring frost.
Lake Tapawingo sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
About 198 days separate Lake Tapawingo's last and first frost, putting it 18,478 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 495 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64171: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lake Tapawingo's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake Tapawingo can differ from the 64171 normal.