Lake Tapawingo, MO 64179 Frost Dates
64179, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lake Tapawingo in Zone 7a (0 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
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
About 198 days separate Lake Tapawingo's last and first frost, putting it 18,479 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MO, it ranks 496 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64179: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake Tapawingo can differ from the 64179 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Lake Tapawingo's frost date answer different questions.