Lake Tapawingo, MO 64197 Frost Dates
64197, 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.
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 18,486 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MO, it ranks 503 of 1,129.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 64197: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake Tapawingo can differ from the 64197 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6b and Lake Tapawingo's frost date answer different questions.