Lake Tapawingo, MO 64188 Frost Dates
64188, 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.
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 Lake Tapawingo, not a forecast for this year.
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
Lake Tapawingo's growing season runs about 198 days, ranking 18,483 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MO, it ranks 500 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64188: 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 64188 normal.