Lake Tapawingo, MO 64191 Frost Dates
Lake Tapawingo, MO: when does the frost end?
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Lake Tapawingo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lake Tapawingo's last frost
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
At roughly 198 frost-free days, Lake Tapawingo places 18,484 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 501 of 1,129.
Learn more
Before leaning on 64191's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Tapawingo's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lake Tapawingo can differ from the 64191 normal.